> you can seek a better alternative because the standards are open. That's not really true, GPL says nothing about standards, you can create your own proprieta

> you can seek a better alternative because the standards are open. That's not really true, GPL says nothing about standards, you can create your own proprietary standard with your code covered under GPL. Funnily enough you can have GPL software and create a minefield of confusion like Oracle does with the OpenJDK which is GPL. I fully agree on the first point though. Sadly many people forget that.