Re: ISO pulls back

From: Pim Blokland (pblokland@planet.nl)
Date: Wed Oct 01 2003 - 01:54:13 CST


Christopher John Fynn schreef:

> >
http://www.iso.org/iso/en/commcentre/pressreleases/2003/Ref871.html
>
> <<There is no proposal currently being considered by ISO to impose
> charges for use of these codes, including on the World Wide Web
and
> in software applications.>>
>
> This kind of leaves it open for them to impose charges at some
future
> date. It would be much more satisfactory if they stated clearly
that
> they would *never* charge for the use of these codes.

Well, scrolling down in that press release, I see that the last
sentence does say:
"ISO will continue to allow use of its country, currency and
language codes free of charge."

Pim Blokland



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