Open Movies are "open source". But they also very much suck. Will I stop going to the movies or watching TV because of "open movies"? Hell no. Locked standards, meaning, those that are not freely available, until one pays protection money to obtain them. Wasn't referring computer standards, I am talking about standards for energy and safety. Most standards are voluntary in the sense that they are offered for adoption by people or industry without being mandated in law. Some standards become mandatory when they are adopted by regulators as legal requirements in particular domains. Example: A standards organization gets together, decides on a course of action, then forces someone pay for information, which should have been open and free to begin with to benefit all society. Locked standards, meaning, those that are not freely available, until one pays protection money to obtain them. People pay to make Bluray, DVD and music players as well. Nobody cares. Most standards are voluntary in the sense that they are offered for adoption by people or industry without being mandated in law. False. Standardization offers no value proposition of its own and increases the overall cost of production (as a result of extra efforts to comply with standards) for manufacturers/software developers. In most cases, industry stardards are just vehicles to create a barrier of entry to an existing market, initiatives to band together smaller players to compete with bigger business rivals or evolutionary results of certain types of products. Chris Weig "You are