Open standards are valuable not only because they allow people to share, but because they allow people to collaborate in a more effective and practical way.
In order to collaborate, open standards are an invaluable tool to be able to do so. Open standards allow people to concentrate on their work more readily, since their files can be distributed among their partners without having to worry about what platform everybody else is running.
And being the nature of open standards allow them to be implemented by any person, or group, on their platform with minimal trouble. This is especially good for the end user, since then he or she can pick the medium on which the file will run in accordance to their particular needs; opposed having to worry about if their files are going to be able to be used at all.
In the current state of things, where there is a way where people can come together to work together in ways that makes it a lot easier the importance of open standards can't be understated. Standards that are owned and managed by a single entity, or a small group, should be discouraged. Development of open standards that can be implemented as widely as possible should become the norm.
Open standards not only present the best way to build our future, but to preserve our past in a way in which we can all access and learn from it.
If we want to grow, and become closer as a society, open standards are our best bet. They give us a way on which we all can have a stake on the way we build our world.
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