Re: cooperation with ISO

Am Dienstag, 25. März 2003 00:18 schrieb Alan Cox:

Hi,

> > and related technologies, to see if there are any areas
> > that could be standardized thru ISO.
>
> Do we really need ISO in the way. ISO's way of working
> doesn't exactly fit up with the Linux one.

Standardizing via ISO is imho a very bad idea. 

We looked into ISO in order to possibly define a document format for the 
German Government but unfortunately we soon had to discover that ISO is 
completely unusable for our purposes.

Basically ISO makes the standards non-free in both senses (freedom and beer). 
In addition ISO is _very_ slow in updating their standards.

Taking part in ISO standardization is very time consuming and very expensive.

Regards,
-- martin

Dipl.-Phys. Martin Konold

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