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Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 16:51:16 +0000
From: Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com>
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To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: DJGPP: Request for license to copy IEEE Standards (fwd)
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Hello.

salvador wrote:
> 
> Alain Magloire wrote:
> 
> > I don't see what is the gain by giving it to a few(2/3) individuals,
> > this is the current situation, we are not improving anything, unless
> > you want to buy for 50 persons.
> 
> If these 2 individuals are Eli and DJ, anybody in doubt can just ask: Is
> that correct for the standard? how the standard defines it?

I currently keep bugging Alain with questions like this, while developing
libsocket ;) To be honest, this is a drag. It's a drag for me to keep
asking Alain, and a drag for him to keep replying. It's also good to be
able to look at the standard and think it about it for a while, e.g. the
Unix98 standard.

I would be willing to pay 30% for a paper copy of the POSIX spec. I got
the impression from the IEEE's response that I have to be part of Alain's
company. I also live in the UK rather than North America. Perhaps I would
be charged the full fee, ~US$80?. Are there any organisations I could join
to get the POSIX standard cheaper?

Just out of interest, how many people do actually have a copy of the POSIX
standard? IIRC DJ & Alain do.

Bye,

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