Phani Most of the organisations/conferences aim to get money from the work being done. Many things are open but not free. This is true of many of the standards as well. e.g. PCI is an open standard. IEEE12207 is a common documentation standard which is open. However, these are not free. One needs a subscription. Some of the big organisations have to sign up and get them. That's the way this "open" ecosystem is operating where many doors are closed. I don't see them making these free anytime soon. Organisations have to get subscriptions for their employees/students at the requisite fee if they want the details. When you go for publishing papers many of them will take the copyright as well. So, they choose how the content/information is regulated. If we want to play their game, we have to play with the cards (rules) dealt. All sorts of content has been restricted to selected few since years for various reasons. This is the reason a lot of it gets obscure with time and lost. (from paper to music to recipes, name it). A real revolution from bottom to top is needed so that everything is made free but our basic human/commercial tendencies do not allow it. Having everything for free for everybody is just a chimera in this scenario. Regards Gajendra
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