Is XFA forms an "Open" standard, and is FDF alive for foreseeable future ?

further to my other (first) post "Adobe PDF XML Forms ? Reading user-entered data to and from the form using VB.NET?"
... I've been researching on the web, and getting the feeling that the new XFA forms architecture is not being supported by third party suppliers in the same way as the old FDF architecture was. see http://www.appligent.com/docs/tech/Acroforms%20WhitePaper.pdf and http://www.jcentricity.com/jCentricityWhitePaper.pdf. I can't find a single reference on the web to any third party developer/toolkit products that support interaction (reading/writing data/merging/splitting etc.) with PDF XFA forms, while there are many vendors offering tools for working with FDF.
Why is this - is there some licensing issue preventing them from doing so ? Is the new PDF XFA standard "open" enough to allow developers (including maybe end user developers like myself if I have the time) to build solutions to manipulate XFA forms as an alternative to the LiveCycle product suites. (For example, could I build code myself that would pre-populate XFA forms programatically in the same way the LiveCycle Server does - without the need for any licenses... is the standard open & documented to make this possible - are there any toolkits or products from Adobe or elsewhere to help me do so) I'd like to understand this before recommending that we commit to a solution on the XFA platform.
I'd also like to understand the status of FDF technology in the Adobe roadmap (given that Adobe recommend XFA for new solutions) before considering that route either.
Any input on any of these points appreciated...
best regards,
Aidan

XFA is an open/published standard. You can download the specs for every version since 1.0 to the current 2.8 and implement them. there are various 3rd parties that have done so - but less than have implemented Acrobat forms. Why? You'd have to ask the 3rd parties...
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