I think you need to go back and look up the definition of 'open standard'. Someone figuring out how to reverse engineer one company's product implementation do

I think you need to go back and look up the definition of 'open standard'. Someone figuring out how to reverse engineer one company's product implementation does not make that either 'open' or a 'standard'. What's needed is a written specification that is not subject to the whims of any single company and that anyone who wants to can build an implementation of.