[LINK] "We’ve a crazy system where publishers own and control knowledge"

[Tom Worthington]

On 22/3/24 22:06, John Mann wrote:
> While we are at it, can we please have free open access to Australian 
> Standards?

No. Standards Australia licensed distribution of its standards to a for 
profit company. Who personally benefited from that is something which 
would merit investigation. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standards_Australia#Licensing_of_the_sale_of_standards

I suggested standards be made free, but got no support for the idea, so 
stopped having anything to do with SA: 
https://blog.tomw.net.au/2009/11/australian-and-international-standards.html


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Tom Worthington http://www.tomw.net.au
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