> On 13 Jun 2015, at 12:12, Alessandro Rubini <[email protected]> wrote: > >> For consortia standards, the resulting standards tend to be free of cost >> to access, have variable freedom from encumbrance to use [...] > > It depends. Or maybe we think of different things about "consortia". > IEEE stuff is not free of cost, but is freely implementable. I think > this falls under consortia under your proposed split: it is not > governamental "de jure" and not community. > > But when I hear "consortium" I think more about bluetooth, zigbee, SD, > PCI, such stuff. This is usually neither available nor free to use. > Usually you even have to pay the yearly fee to the Family if you produce > compliant stuff (this is in addition to paying for conformance tests). > > One example, but they are all similar: http://www.usb.org/developers/vendor/
Yes, this is true. I guess the picture is very variable with consortia-based standards as its up to the members to agree the rules. In some industries like TV this can be really restrictive and non-members can’t even read the standards; for web standards like W3 its less so. > /alessandro OSS Watch - supporting open source in education and research http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk [email protected] [email protected] http://scottbw.wordpress.com @scottbw
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