From: joack@gmx.net
this
/*-------------------------------------------------------------------- ------*/ 4.The Open Group reserves the right to charge for HTML/PDF versions of its publications in the future. /*-------------------------------------------------------------------- ------*/
is exactly the passage Markj has been refering to for a week now. I.e. behält sich das Recht vor in Zukunft für seine Publikationen Geld zu verlangen. Not to charge for future publication (für zukünftige ...) and while this may not be the most probable outcome, they may thus charge for stuff you already have. AND they may charge ANY sum. This would not be legal here in our country, but ...
It oboiusly a miss interpretation!
You are not allowed to save a copy of the HTML version. So you cannot "have" the standard at home.
I believe it would be illegal in any country to charge for a publication that you only have been able to view.
It is obvious that Mark simply does not like to view the standard :-(
.. If you participated the standard creation, you would have a legal PDF and a TEXT version. This version has line numbers for the editors and this looks a bit ugly for this reason :-)
Besides pdf isn't exactly a free standart, is it?
I would rather like to have a free standard but at least PDF works nearly everywhere.
Jörg
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