On 9/17/2011 11:10 AM, Bronek Kozicki wrote:
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Having said that, I agree the price for a copy of C++ 2011 standard is much too high and was happy to learn it's going to be much lower by 2012. If you don't want to buy it from American standarization body, go to your national one and ask if you can contribute to work of ISO/IEC committee JTC1/SC22/WG21 - technical experts have free access to relevant ISO documents, including copy of standard.
ISO web site actually says
Orders for *ISO standards* and other *ISO publications* should normally be addressed to the ISO member in your country.
http://www.iso.org/iso/store/purchasing_from_iso_members.htm It means that if you are not in the United States you are not supposed to by the $30 version and pay anything to any US organizations. I guess it addresses this issue:
As a matter of principle I don't want to finance INCITS (merely U.S. organization) and won't pay even $0.03.
-- Ilya Bobyr