What is the difference between open standard and open source software? - W3C

What is the difference between open standard and open source software?

- Open source refers in terms of the software that is being developed and given to the users for use, whereas open standards deals in terms of documents that is made for the software being developed.

- W3C has their own standards that id being publicly available or having the policies posted on them, whereas open source provides with some limitations as well.

- W3C provides the technical comments within the open standard documents, whereas open source softwares provide the complete source code for the public use.

- W3C open standard’s process is vendor neutral as it provides the technology for everyone, whereas open source is not vendor neutral and different softwares have different use.