But the very success of the Internet is based on open standards, rather than technologies controlled by any one company or organisation.
Microsoft have released an early preview of IE8 and announced a raft of new features, a lot of which are based on open standards such as better CSS and Javascript support (with a more standardized object model).
Integration based on open standards, in order to achieve communication and information interoperability, is one of the key aspects of modern health care information systems.
The issue at hand is how the coming web-services industry, a central part of the new economy, will be organised: whether it will be dominated by one firm, as the PC software industry has been, or be based on open standards.
Because the technology is based on open standards, there is potential to integrate with other HTML5-based libraries, such as D3 (http://d3js.org/), iCanplot (Sinha and Armstrong, 2012) for statistical visualization and Scribl (Miller et al., 2013) for multiple region genomic visualization.
Software is becoming a service delivered over the internet and mostly based on open standards.
Rival file-sharing networks, based on open standards, are now in the ascendant.
But the mobile-phone industry, in which Nokia is top dog, is based on open standards.
But Internet computing is at present largely based on open standards.
"What Ethernet is today is a business model based on open standards and individually owned implementations," he said.
Much of the cloud is based on open standards, which should make it easier to switch providers.
