Wouldn't it be a good idea to have a site just like SciHub but only for ISO (and other) standards?
Ask HN: Why are ISO standards so expensive?
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Re: Ask HN: Why are ISO standards so expensive?
#22Yeah ISO are de facto laws and the should be free
Re: Ask HN: Why are ISO standards so expensive?
#23Can think of 2 reasons why it is not free. a. These are meant for a business to show off its compliance. A business means it is already making money. I am sure every company would be happy to pay that 100CHF to buy it for you , just like they can afford to buy a book, if they are thinking about ISO. b. The ISO compliance is to be asserted by a 3rd party auditor. They are a member of the ISO community and/or have a co…
I am ok with a), but b): how should I comply with something I don't know. Sometimes I have to comply by law. What is this the soviet union?
Re: Ask HN: Why are ISO standards so expensive?
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Where?
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There should be a scihub for isos
Re: Ask HN: Why are ISO standards so expensive?
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
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There should be a scihub for isos
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Re: Ask HN: Why are ISO standards so expensive?
#26The fee is to pay for the ISO's operating costs of maintaining and distributing the standards. They do have a section of publicly available standards, if you're interested: https://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/
They probably have a gold web server that can only be powered by the tears of albino giraffes. For the price they charge for distributing one standard once, normal organizations can distribute files to anyone who asks essentially forever.
Re: Ask HN: Why are ISO standards so expensive?
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
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There should be a scihub for isos
hard to search for since they're numbered, and people collect the ones that are relevant to them personally
Re: Ask HN: Why are ISO standards so expensive?
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Where?
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Don't mind the downvotes. Thanks for posting this. It's very important.
Re: Ask HN: Why are ISO standards so expensive?
#29The fee is to pay for the ISO's operating costs of maintaining and distributing the standards. They do have a section of publicly available standards, if you're interested: https://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/
Thank you for sharing this! For some reason I really enjoy reading standards documents.
Re: Ask HN: Why are ISO standards so expensive?
#30The fee is to pay for the ISO's operating costs of maintaining and distributing the standards. They do have a section of publicly available standards, if you're interested: https://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/
They probably have a gold web server that can only be powered by the tears of albino giraffes. For the price they charge for distributing one standard once, normal organizations can distribute files to anyone who asks essentially forever.
I suspect (although I've made no effort to verify this) that some standards organisations were set up in the days of paper copies and secretaries and typists, when they needed a 10-storey office building [1]. So naturally they set up a pricing structure reflecting those expenses.
Then they kept the employee numbers and pricing structure due to institutional inertia.