lifthrasiir also sort of touched on this (and I endorse their comment), but as a thought experiment, imagine what word processing formats would look like if MSF

lifthrasiir also sort of touched on this (and I endorse their comment), but as a thought experiment, imagine what word processing formats would look like if MSFT hadn't owned .doc, but instead, WordPerfect and maybe two other competitors also shared the format. When a popular format can't be unilaterally controlled by one actor, both the users and the market as a whole tend to be better off.