The importance of the Internet can't be understated, after all it has permeated into almost all aspects of our life's. We use it for work or play, sometimes for both.
It's a great forum where we all come together, to share with others or to look up new things. It's a gathering place where everyone is invited, and free to engage as best he can. In many ways, is has become a place to launch new ideas to the world or to start great changes.
This is why it is vital to keep the Internet free to all, and without a central control. Information should flow freely between individuals and groups.
Equally important is to build it on open standards, so anyone can work with them and so everyone has access to the data contain on the Internet. If the standard is close, there is a real danger that any data on that format could be lost if the owner of that standard goes down for any reason or chooses to stop supporting it.
Open standards are vital because of this. Since the standard is developed, and supported, by several individuals and groups the risk that it wont be supported in the future is less likely. Not only that, because there are several developers working on it new features can be added faster, and bugs can be corrected faster.
Security would be greater, since patches can be set up sooner. Also, the code is being scrutinized by several people looking for any code that can be harmful that'll rise the red flag faster and explain things a lot more clearly.
So, let's move the Internet so open standard and keep it using them. Only then, we can have a free Internet for all to use.
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