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If you go to their website, it looks pretty threadbare. I don’t know where the budget will come from to purchase the standards once for pdf-ization. I am personally interested in ASTM mechanical standards. ASTM has a reading room where you promise not to print. But the ASTM reading room does not have a search capability limited to itself. ASTM searches revert to mostly (or all?) for-sale publications. This makes the reading room almost useless.

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Carl Malamud takes donations, and is funded by a lot of good people.

He was also behind the efforts to scan federal reporters (see https://yeswescan.org/index.court.html) , etc.

When I saw they won this case (I didn't know the case was in action), I donated what I could. I donate to the EFF and they support him with legal counsel.

I've been a vocal opponent of the law not including the standards they reference due to copyright. Once it's enacted into law you should lose all right to prevent dissemination of those standards. It's not like the government is ever knocking on your door as a standards designer to enact your private standard as law.

I think a large part of why housing in Florida is expensive is because of the prohibitively expensive standards you need to purchase to even determine what you have to do to legally build a home.

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