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Adobe Blasts Nikon's Closed File Format

Posted by Zonk on from the starting-a-fist-fight dept.

Joe Decker writes "Thomas Knoll, creator of Adobe Photoshop, blasts Nikon's use of encryption to limit access to white-balance information contained in D2X RAW images files. Fearing the DMCA, Adobe won't reverse-engineer the file, slightly reducing Photoshop's support for those files. Nikon responds. Is Adobe whining? Is Nikon shooting itself in the foot?" We've covered this previously.

14 of 347 comments (clear)

  1. Nikon by wirah · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nikon are screwing open source developers in the foot too :(

    1. Re:Nikon by DrXym · · Score: 5, Funny

      Mixed metaphors are fun! The hands on the other foot now!

    2. Re:Nikon by caluml · · Score: 5, Funny

      This article tries to turn the sow's ear of an overstretched metaphor into the silk purse of a pithy comment, but winds up counting it's chickens in a castle built on sand as the skeletons in the closet come home to roost.

      Stolen from somewhere I can't remember.

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    3. Re:Nikon by Stregone · · Score: 5, Funny

      Keep an eye out for an old dude with a sports almanac from the future!

    4. Re:Nikon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
      "I don't need a compass to tell which way the wind shines."

      -- Mr Furious, "Ticking Time-bomb of Rage"

    5. Re:Nikon by Kadmium · · Score: 5, Funny

      I bet you were burning the midnight oil at both ends to come up with that one.

    6. Re:Nikon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Just remember, a bird in the hand is greener than the grass underneath the other guy's bushes!

    7. Re:Nikon by NanoGator · · Score: 2, Funny

      "I bet you were burning the midnight oil at both ends to come up with that one."

      Oh, man. Put a little thought into these! That was as stupid as a screendoor on a battleship!

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    8. Re:Nikon by mkro · · Score: 2, Funny

      It doesn't need to have a connection. Every time you make an obscure reference, you tickle a specific "I am of the selected few who took the reference" nerve with people who recognize it, and they mod it up. You see it a lot with movies: Cameos and references can make an average movie cool (and you see a few laughing extra loud while looking around to see if anyone else "got it"), but also quite frequently you see it on Slashdot. Mentioning "TPS report" or a red Swingline stapler in ANY thread, no matter how unrelated, scores you an instant +5 funny. The Slashdot Polls? Vote for the most obscure option you recognize. It just makes us feel SMART.

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  2. Squeel? by t_allardyce · · Score: 5, Funny

    Adobe should just put a little message in so when you try to access a Nikon camera in Photoshop it starts bitching about the DMCA and how Nikon doesn't love their customers as much as other manufacturers.

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  3. Let me be the first to say: by LittleBigLui · · Score: 5, Funny

    Freely readable white-balance information is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone.

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  4. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 2, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  5. And Let ME be the first to say: by commodoresloat · · Score: 5, Funny

    Freely readable white-balance information is the bedrock of our liberties. Those who would give up essential white balance information to obtain temporary control over copyright infringement deserve neither.

  6. Subject by Legion303 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Fearing the DMCA, Adobe won't reverse-engineer the file"

    The poetic justice is lovely this evening.