BSD is the best kind of software standard, they tap into cost/benefit factors.
Standards are broken by design, they're only followed for a few reasons:
1. marketing ("this toaster works like your previous toaster!")
2. government ("this toaster can plug into your wall!")
3. safety ("ul and csa checked, this toaster won't kill you!")
Since software doesn't catch fire and governments haven't seriously regulated anything software related. Software standards are just marketing, so they are super-broken:
1. De jure standards for marketing purposes are worthless in a pure market based environment, businesses continuously differentiate to stay alive. Every de facto standard happens to be because some previous big cat made something everyone bought or pirated and the next big cat want its users.
2. The biggest cat will subvert the standards in every way possible because they can and they profit.