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Standards shouldn't be behind a paywall (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by qaz@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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  • ISO 8601 is paywalled
  • RFC allows a space instead of a T (e.g. 2020-12-09 16:09:...) which is nicer to read.
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[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 40 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Its funny because everything about ISO 8601 is covered on its Wikipedia article. Very few people need to spend the francs to need the spec.

[–] K4mpfie@feddit.de 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you want to be compliant for a standard you need to have a copy of it. Luckily it's only companies that really need to buy them

[–] SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Which means the companies using the specs pay the company making the specs for everyone (companies and people) to use.

That sounds fair, but I wouldn't be surprised if capitalism fucked it up anyhow.

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