Comment by namibj
8 hours ago
Well it should be unconstitutional for any law or government ordinance to demand compliance with any standards that are pay-to-copy.
Arguably the government should publish a blessed magnet link of a blessed torrent file per each field of standard. Probably with the padding files used to make each PDF individually hash-checkable.
If nothing else it's a practical way of declaring what standard version is the legally significant one. It's usable without actually sharing any of the PDFs anyways.
The ISO should make all their standards CC BY-NC
LOL they'd rather charge you $5000 for something as basic as the SQL standard.
Found that scam out cause im going back to learn SQL properly. And had questions about the spec. Thought it would be like an RFC. LOL NOPE.
Its the "International Scam-dards Organization", aka terrible decisions by committee and charge corporate-corporate rates.
Fortunately, Library Genesis has them all.
it's a shame since I generally have a lot of respect for international standards bodies
The content you're describing is a minuscule fraction of what's available on Anna's Archive.
Every journey has a start. This would be a pretty good one.