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Standards are convenient, but a lot of issues would be resolved if products were publicly documented. To my knowledge PostScript was never standardized and PDF has been standardized for about half of its history, yet they were both fairly well documented by the vendor. Contrast that to other popular document formats, or this bike, which had to be reverse engineered. Yes, documenting implementations adds overhead that inhibits the rate of progress. On the other hand, not documenting implementations are usually inhibits progress as well since it is all about short term gains.