Open Standard actually means anyone is allowed to adopt it as a certified standard for it's purpose. So Scott you know what to do with your own foot.
MPEG2 (DVDs) is an ISO/IEC Open Standard
WebM is Open Source
H.264 (Blu-ray) is an ISO/IEC Open Standard
OGG Theora is Open Source
Apple is talking about the IETF HTTP Streaming Protocol which I believe uses the MPEG2 transport mechanism, they will be using it to stream the event live. It is an open standard or soon will be. I believe it is now going through the IETF standards process as we speak.
If no one else is supporting this open standard yet then what are you going to do? They will. Same thing happened with USB and Firewire.
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