Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!charon!dik From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: The Standard for Fortran 77 (Re: intrinsic) Message-ID: <2714@charon.cwi.nl> Date: 22 Dec 90 02:11:18 GMT References: <1214@orange19.qtp.ufl.edu> <1218@orange19.qtp.ufl.edu> Sender: news@cwi.nl Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 17 In article <1218@orange19.qtp.ufl.edu> bernhold@qtp.ufl.edu (David E. Bernholdt) writes: > I got an interesting response from someone at FPS about this. It > seems that FPS had to stop producing the manual because someone said > it was too much like the standard (it _was_ the standard, in a binder > with an additional section of FPS's extensions) and wanted FPS to pay > royalties. More interesting would by how much was expected in the form of royalties. Would the price indeed be much too high? > > Seems like the Fortran user community would be better served if > vendors wouldn't have to worry about such things -- maybe we would > have more people familiar with the standard then! Of course. But who then will pay the standardization process (which is not cheap)? -- dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland dik@cwi.nl