hello Mr. raju. perfect suggestion well said. in the first place why should free standards be slaves of any standard's organisation which has a reputation of creating standards for *purely business*. how does ISO declaring a certain thing as standards relate to freedom. afterall a complete free standard (as in freedom ) must not come from just an organisation but community. and we need to create some kind of a system where such a community driven infrastructure can be put in place. happy hacking. Krishnakant.
On 18/04/2008, CK Raju, Thrissur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear RMS, > I think its futile to chase ISO anymore. We would only land up > spending our own creative energy which we can't afford to at this > pace. > > " * Market-driven > > ISO only develops standards for which there is a market requirement. > The work is mainly carried out by experts from the industrial, > technical and business sectors which have asked for the standards, and > which subsequently put them to use." .. in their own words at > http://www.iso.org/iso/about/discover-iso_the-iso-brand.htm > > Why should Free Software Foundation and other like minded > organisations allow ISO to take over software standards and make it - > only *market-driven* one ? > > Its not difficult to realise that the *very conditions* that > necessitated a Standards Organisation to be promoted, are now > prevalent and omnipresent. > > Why not create another organisation that develops standards for the > common world citizens to communicate with freedom ? > > Shouldn't we ask ourselves now about this, and try to define the > *framework* that would set in motion a new organisation which would be > able to come out with Free/Open Standards after *defining* them in as > unambigous terms as possible ? > > CK Raju, > MES College of Engineering, Kuttippuram > Kerala, > India > _______________________________________________ > Fsf-friends mailing list > [email protected] > http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-friends > _______________________________________________ Fsf-friends mailing list [email protected] http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-friends
