[LINK] Make Australian Standards Open Access?

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Adam Todd wrote:
> 
> I was going to say "SA profit from the labor of hard working inventive 
> and intelligent people and don't pay a cent for it"

It is a bit more complex than that. If you are particularly interested 
you could read
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> Standards Australia was established in 1922 and is recognised through a Memorandum of Understanding with the Commonwealth Government as the peak non-government standards development body in Australia. It is a company limited by guarantee, with 72 members representing groups interested in the development and application of standards and related products and services......
<http://www.standards.org.au/cat.asp?catid=21>

> Standards and Accreditation
> Commissioned Study
> The Australian Government has asked the Productivity Commission to undertake a research study into the Australian Government’s relationship with Standards Australia Limited and the National Association of Testing Authorities.....
<http://www.pc.gov.au/study/standards/>

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> 
> Jan, thanks :)  For confirming my supposition!
> 
> 
> 
> At 11:08 AM 6/11/2006, Jan Whitaker wrote:
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>> At 09:52 AM 6/11/2006, Christopher Vance wrote:
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>>> 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.
>>
>>
>> I was on an SA panel once. I stopped participating when they wouldn't 
>> even give contributors copies of the standards. I thought that was a 
>> bit cheap on their part.
>>
>> Jan
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