[LINK] Make Australian Standards Open Access?
Christopher Vance
cjsvance at gmail.com
Mon Nov 6 09:52:33 AEDT 2006
On 11/4/06, Tom Worthington <Tom.Worthington at tomw.net.au> wrote:
> If the Australian Government is willing to consider making its
> documents freely available on-line, it seems reasonable that
> Standards Australia should do likewise. There seems no good reason
> why the resulting documents should not be freely available on-line to
> Australians, who funded the standards development and wrote the
> standards for free.
SA makes a profit from those who do the work. I'm sure they won't
consider any kind of subprofit release unless somebody steps in to
replace all of that lovely income.
-- Christopher
one-time chair IT1/22
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