We also have to bear in mind that the computer industry often uses "RS-232" in reference to something that uses neither the connector nor the signaling levels defined by RS-232, something we have IBM to thank for.
Egregious rent seeking grifters at TIA demanding $165 per half-assed scanned copy[1] of a near 3-decade-old document that they couldn't even be bothered to properly OCR, and somehow IBM gets to shoulder the blame for the interoperability clusterfuck that ensued as everyone and their mother was profiting off their innovation?
Yet another fine example showing why standards should be at least readable to everyone for free, eh?
The general public at large already pays huge amounts of money to various standardization organizations, be it ISO, IEC, DIN, UL, whatever. The resulting works should be public domain, similar to patents.
