"Brian" == Brian E Carpenter
<brian(_dot_)e(_dot_)carpenter(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> writes:
Brian> On 2007-11-01 12:08, lconroy wrote:
Hi Tom, folks,
Many thanks for that. This is exactly what I wanted to know.
I understand that this is a distraction from the wider IPR crusade,
but I wonder if people should consider ensuring that our standards
refer to just this kind of open document (e.g. refer to SUS/opengroup
standards rather than the original POSIX/IEEE standards).
Brian> But what if the freely available document is slightly out of date
Brian> or slightly different compared to the official one? That isn't a sound
Brian> basis for a normative reference. In such a case, I would consider
Brian> a normative reference to the official (paid) standard and an informative
Brian> reference to the free one, with a warning.
My understanding is that the Open Group / SUS standards are supposed
to be technically and textually identical to the IEEE 1003.x
standards, or at least, a strict superset thereof. If someone has
evidence to the contrary, I would like to know about it.
---Tom
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