Probably because,then the user won't care,since he can do his work and
not
care about standards,openness or anything.
People who have their online banking/share-trading accounts working since many years cannot be expected to move to FOSS and close those accounts or stop trading simply due to standards compliance. As technical people we have to try to provide the middle path which allows them to make the switch to FOSS without undergoing a castration.
Well,I never expected those users to close their accounts and stop trading shares to switch to FOSS.I agree with you that as techies,we have to provide the golden mean,but the point is based on a notion that I(or we,in case you are generalising) expected them to give up their accounts and trading so that they could switch to FOSS(mistaken notion,I might add)
Regards, Easwar Registered Linux user #442065