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Keith Thompson
Years ago, I bought a PDF copy of the ISO C90 standard from ansi.org
for $18. I later bought a PDF copy of the C99 standard for either
$18 or $30
Now when I look on webstore.ansi.org, the C99 standard is still
available for $30, but they want $285 for ISO/IEC 9899:2011.
iso.org is charging CHF 238, which is about $255 US at current
exchange rates.
Apparently ANSI had a policy of selling the C99 standard at a
reasonable price. Why does that policy not apply to the C11
standard? Is any other organization selling (legal!) copies of
C11 at a lower price?
(The same thing seems to be happening with the ISO C++ standard.)
for $18. I later bought a PDF copy of the C99 standard for either
$18 or $30
Now when I look on webstore.ansi.org, the C99 standard is still
available for $30, but they want $285 for ISO/IEC 9899:2011.
iso.org is charging CHF 238, which is about $255 US at current
exchange rates.
Apparently ANSI had a policy of selling the C99 standard at a
reasonable price. Why does that policy not apply to the C11
standard? Is any other organization selling (legal!) copies of
C11 at a lower price?
(The same thing seems to be happening with the ISO C++ standard.)