It seems increasing insane to have standards related to software interoperability that are not in the public domain, doesn't it? I know (or assume) that the pu

It seems increasing insane to have standards related to software interoperability that are not in the public domain, doesn't it? I know (or assume) that the purchase money pays for activities that need to be done. But this doesn't seem like a good way to do it. On the other hand, maybe nobody pays attention to software interoperability standards anymore anyway.