"Stewart, Robert" wrote:
Alexander Terekhov wrote:
"Stewart, Robert" wrote: [...]
Running the standards organizations is not without costs. Charging for their output is a means to cover those costs.
How come that ALL of ECMA standards (and technical reports) are available for downloading free of charge?
I have no certain idea. . . .
http://www.ecma-international.org/memento/ordinary.htm "For this category of membership, the annual fee for 2010 is CHF 70000.-. The following companies are currently ordinary members of Ecma: . . ." http://www.ecma-international.org/memento/associat.htm "For this category of membership, the annual fee for 2010 is CHF 35000.-. The following companies are currently associate members of Ecma: . . ." http://www.ecma-international.org/memento/SME.htm "For this category of membership, the annual fee for 2010 is CHF 17500.-. The following companies are currently SME members of Ecma: . . ." http://www.ecma-international.org/memento/SPC.htm "For this category of membership, the annual fee for 2010 is CHF 3500.-." http://www.ecma-international.org/memento/NFP.htm "Not-for-profit Members (NFP) NFP members are non-profit-making organizations. If an NFP is an organization with several organizations as members, then normally it can only become an NFP member in Ecma if its members do not qualify for Company membership in Ecma. For this category of membership, there is no annual fee. The following organizations are currently NFP members of Ecma: . . ." regards, alexander.