Did you ask the question just so you could interpret any given answer as uncharitably as possible and pretend that the people answering are actually Bad People?
They are not Bad People, but they have bad rationalizations .
We already have decades worth of lectures and essays that explain why open standards are good for everyone. It is basically impossible that the people here haven't been exposed to any of those ideas, so they are not ignorant. Therefore, it really makes no sense for me to try to rehash those and the best I can do is to simply expose the cognitive dissonance.
You’re making a lot of really bad faith replies.