From 031ceb664aa37672cfc0835d13f97a99f2451ea4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Luke Shumaker Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2018 21:35:05 -0500 Subject: add posix-pricing article --- public/posix-pricing.md | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+) create mode 100644 public/posix-pricing.md diff --git a/public/posix-pricing.md b/public/posix-pricing.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..54637a2 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/posix-pricing.md @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +POSIX pricing and availability; or: Do you really need the PDF? +=============================================================== +--- +date: "2018-02-09" +--- + +The Open Group and IEEE are weird about POSIX pricing. They're +protective of the PDF, making you pay [hundreds of +dollars][POSIX-IEEE] for the PDF; but will happily post an HTML +version for free both [online][POSIX-WWW], and (with free account +creation) download as a [a .zip][POSIX-TOG]. + +They also offer a special license to the "Linux man-pages" project, +allowing them to [distribute][POSIX-MAN] the man page portions of +POSIX (most of it is written as a series of man pages) for free; so on +a GNU/Linux box, you probably have most of POSIX already downloaded in +manual sections 0p, 1p, and 3p. + +Anyway, the only thing you aren't getting with the free HTML version +is a line number next to every line of text. It's generated from the +same troff sources. So, in an article or in a discussion, I'm not +cheating you out of specification details by citing the webpage. + +If you're concerned that you're looking at the correct version of the +webpage or man pages, the current version (as of February 2018) of +POSIX is "POSIX-2008, 2016 edition." + +[POSIX-IEEE]: http://standards.ieee.org/findstds/standard/1003.1-2008.html +[POSIX-TOG]: https://www2.opengroup.org/ogsys/catalog/t101 +[POSIX-WWW]: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/ +[POSIX-MAN]: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/man-pages-posix/ -- cgit v1.2.3