Let's face it, the reality is that no software is a perfect fit for every user out there. What the users need varies a lot, depending on what they'll use their computer for and how it'll be used.
Therefore, the specs needed on the software can vary a lot from one user to another. The idea of an average user is just helpful to have a starting point, but not much else. When you look the details of how the software will be used, the work done on it can vary much from situation to situation.
This is why standards should be open, enabling developers to better fit the software to the user without having to worry if the standard will work with the software his working on.
On the user side, there will be less concern if the software they're implementing will work with what they already have. Being secure that what they have will work independently of the platform they are working on, it's a great reassurance. This frees a lot of resources to actually work on what is important to the user.
Open standards benefit all who work using them, since it gives them the reassurance that they can work on adding values to what they without having to worry if it'll work.
Let's support open standards, because by doing so we get the freedom to have a common platform and having the reassurance that it'll work the way we want it to.
It's a way on which we all win.
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