Adobe Blasts Nikon's Closed File Format

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.

Comments

Nikon

[wirah]

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

Re:Nikon

[DrXym]

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

Re:Nikon

[caluml]

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.

Re:Nikon

[Stregone]

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

Re:Nikon

[Anonymous Coward]

"I don't need a compass to tell which way the wind shines."

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

Re:Nikon

[Kadmium]

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

Squeel?

[t_allardyce]

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.

Let me be the first to say:

[LittleBigLui]

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.

And Let ME be the first to say:

[commodoresloat]

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.

Subject

[Legion303]

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

The poetic justice is lovely this evening.