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Standards marketing

Marketing aimed towards creating standards based on predominant technologies supplied by a solitary company and marked as exclusive or proprietary standards. Those standards are also called de facto standards and their meaning is opposite to open or de jure standards. Unlike de facto standards, de jure standards are based on the absence of any dominant technology. Open-standard technologies deliver choice to users while exclusive (proprietary) standards enable a sole supplier keep overall control on functions of the product.