Why use open standards developed by the W3C? Why not leave it to the marketplace?
- W3C's open standards have been developed in an open environment,
with the aim of achieving platform and application independency
- Commercial companies develop proprietary formats in order to
maximise their profits and dividends to shareholders
- W3C's open standards have been developed to interoperate with
each other according to W3C's design vision
- Commercial companies typically develop proprietary formats in isolation,
or along the lines of a company vision
