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An open file format is a file format for storing digital data, defined by a published specification usually maintained by a standards organization, and which can be used and implemented by anyone.
OpenFormats; Practical Advice for using Free Formats from Ubuntu Community Documentation; Study on the: Economic impact of open source software on innovation and the competitiveness of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector in the EU, 2006 EU report in favor of adopting open source software; Free File Format Definition
One of the contentious issues surrounding the use of proprietary formats is the control of the files. [citation needed] If the information is stored in a way which the user's software provider tries to keep secret, the user may store the information by virtue of having generated it, but they have no way to retrieve it except by using a version of the original software which produced the file.
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