28 Feb
2012
28 Feb
'12
9:11 a.m.
On 28 February 2012 15:10, Alexey Toptygin <alexeyt at freeshell.org> wrote:
On Mon, 27 Feb 2012, Tony Duell wrote:
It's probably the same reaso nthat British and European standards
You public library probably has access to this standard. I can see (but not
download and print) about 120 BSi and ISO standards from any PC just by
inputting my library card number, but I can't find one that matchs the
latching plug
docuemts are very expensiv (I was told the full
set of standards for the
'kettle plug' connector would cost be well over \pounds 1000).
No, the reason for that is to exclude competitors from
the marketplace. A
full set of telephony standards costs millions of dollars, and that's not
including the national variants that are almost exactly the same but have
some small bit tweaked to make them incompatible. If you're part of the
manufacturer's cabal, you're on the committee that writes the standards and
you get free copies. If you're a startup trying to break into the market
then $*&% you.
Alexey