Re: sustainable swag

>From Randal:
> 
> I believe these prices may be an error 
> -- according to what I have
> read in Switzerland it is common 
> to use the comma to denote the
> decimal point for fractions -- 
> except when the units concerned are
> Swiss Francs. It is possible that 
> the programmer here forgot this
> exception and used the comma instead 
> as with other numbers. This would
> make these documents around $101.00 US 
> dollars rather than $10,100.00.

Hi Randal

I was thinking in terms of each standard costing around USD $100.00 when I
wrote that they cost 'a fortune'. OK, I admit that I was exaggerating
somewhat, but 100 bucks for a standard seems pretty high to me. Especially
if you need to buy more than one of them, such as the ISO 9241 series.
ISO/TR 9241-100:2010 costs 99 CHF, USD $95, and that just tells you about
all the other parts of the standard. I'm still smarting a bit from paying
out real, personal money some years ago for the full set of ISO 9241 as it
used to be. 

Best
Caroline Jarrett
Twitter @cjforms
www.formsthatwork.com


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