Let me rephrase that: Do closely held and "undocumented" proprietary formats allow for more or enhanced creativity and innovation, or is that just a smoke screen?
Shel > [Original Message] > From: Shel Belinkoff > This comment amongst the articles and comments got me to thinking about the > viewpoint of the camera manufacturers: "A common, openly documented RAW > format would fulfill many of the goals of OpenRAW, but is likely to face > significant resistance from manufacturers who feel their "creativity" and > ability to innovate would be constrained." Do closely held and > "undocumented" proprietary formats constrain creativity and innovation, or > is that just a smoke screen? > > Shel > > > > [Original Message] > > From: Doug Franklin > > > An interesting article showed up on one of the geek news sites that I > > frequent today. It says that a group of people affiliated with a > > mailing list called OpenRAW are trying to put together a collection of > > documentation for RAW image formats used by various cameras and making > > them available to the public. We'll see if the camera/image-chip > > vendors go along with it or sue for misuse of copyright > > materials. > > > > http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/08/014250&tid=227&tid= > > 162&tid=137 > > > > TTYL, DougF KG4LMZ > > >
