Graham Sutherland / PolynomialMay 1
paywalled standards need to fuck off straight into the sea. truly one of the worst types of rent-seeking.
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@gsuberland for those that must, the Estonian standardisation organisation (evs.ee) provides the most reasonable pricing. What you then do with the DRM on the PDF is up to you.

Why people pay full price to BSI I have no idea, but they are literally printing money [standards]

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@gsuberland also, why significant price discrepancies exist between countries when standards are literally... standardised internationally utterly baffles me
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@blinken @gsuberland They also have a very cheap "browse this standard online for X hours" feature for certain standards.

This works through an embedded pdf.js viewer on the website and a highly sophisticated encryption scheme that would prevent anyone from simply downloading the PDF file

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@blinken @gsuberland Because of that, there are also no watermarks (visible or otherwise) in those files, because nobody can download them anyway.
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@23n27 @gsuberland I see. That's very forward thinking of them
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@blinken @gsuberland The reason why I like this of course is because having watermarks plastered across the whole page makes it hard for me to focus on the actual contents
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@23n27 @gsuberland accessibility is very important, and good on the Estonian Centre for Standardisation and Accreditation for embracing it