Another benefit of open standards, is that it's more secure that closed ones. Mainly because they can be reviewed by any particular individual or group.
This makes it harder to put malicious code into the platforms that work with the standard, since there are many eyes making sure that there are no code that could harm, or hinder, the use safe use of the standard.
Other reason is that any vulnerability can be found and patched a lot more rapidity. Since the one who found any given vulnerability can code the patch, it makes the process a lot faster. While making the whole system a lot safer.
And since no particular interest controls the standard, it's a lot harder to put into it anything that could spy or remotely control the users machines that work with the standard. In the case it does slip through, the process to alert of the existence of such a code can be made known by the one who found it. It also can be removed a lot faster.
The security of the open standards not only rest on the fact that it can be studied and corrected by a larger number of people, but by the fact that it's on the best interest of everyone to be kept that way.
So, open standards have an advantage on security.
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