Ran across an open letter about making ISO standards free (instead of hidden behind a paywall).
Reminded me of looking for the ISO standard for Modula-2 (my first love ;-)). Which is (at least in part) retracted/obsolete, but is still sold by ISO. For… almost 600 Euros for three standards documents, the base language, the generics extensions and the object oriented. The base is 214 Euros, while the two extensions are 170 each.

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