Re: Apple/Adobe Imaging, DAM and Workflow
Re: Apple/Adobe Imaging, DAM and Workflow
- Subject: Re: Apple/Adobe Imaging, DAM and Workflow
- From: Marco Ugolini <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 09:52:49 -0700
- Thread-topic: Apple/Adobe Imaging, DAM and Workflow
In a message dated 7/16/07 5:09 AM, edmund ronald wrote:
> So in 20 years time, when Gill Bates has bought out Abode, we will
> have those old DNGs and the metadata in them but the ability to render
> them will have been lost.
>
> In other words, only the owner of the Abode software code will be able
> to read old Abode files. And if they drop legacy support, or the old
> code gets lost, nobody will be able to reproduce the old renderings.
Why do you say that, Edmund? If DNG becomes the truly open standard it has
the promise to be, then Adobe or no Adobe won't make a difference. "Open" is
*open*.
If it's not truly open now, then let's work to make it just that. Let's call
Adobe on it, and tell them that either they support a standard and publish
the code, or they don't -- which means they're not serious and we'll have to
look elsewhere for some solution that doesn't leave us flapping in the wind.
(We could create an international standards committee, or whatever else it
takes.)
Why are we acting as if we were so helpless? We're all smart professionals.
Some of us are excellent software developers. If we can't come together in
defense of *our* interests, why blame others for our own deficiencies?
> I think there is exactly ONE alternative to proprietary. It is called
> OPEN. Let all the actors including Nikon, Canon and our hypothetical
> friend Abode publish ALL the rendering algorithms in their software.
> And, yes, Apple too.
I'm with you there.
Marco Ugolini
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