Benefits of Open Standards

A lot of benefits can be taken from using open standards. These benefits such as flexibility of using office software, better protection of the data files and cost reduction greatly influence various IT sectors. Among these benefits, I would say that the most remarkable one is that open standards allows implementers to have a freedom of choice. As based on the cited reference below, “there is less chance of being locked in by a specific vendor”.

http://open-standards.gbdirect.co.uk/benefits_of_open_standards.html

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FOSS_Open_Standards/Importance_and_Benefits_of_Open_Standards