> NOT the ISO for paywalling these specs and making it a god damn paperchase where every time you get one document it references three others that are also paywalled

You know, as I got older it became apparent that access to information is always what held me back, and probably the same for everyone. Like, when I was quite young how was I supposed to learn to program on say, Windows 95, when I didn't know where to get a compiler and I had no books that explained programming available to me? Not even knowing where to begin so I'd understand the books once I reached for them?

Technical standards really ought to be open to the public if they're meant to be widely implemented.