“Free!”

There is a view that information should be free.  It practically is anyway; we can Google just about anything.

Technical standards, like those produced by Standards Australia, currently face a difficult business model with that expectation of free.  While they are not a money-making factory – not in it to make a dollar, they are in it to make a difference – there is a tension between freely available and open access, and the costs of that availability.

A fundamental requirement for technical standards is that we can undeniably trust the content.  It’s a cost of doing business in a technical field.

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