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.

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[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!

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.

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[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.

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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.

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[Legion303]

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

The poetic justice is lovely this evening.

Re:Nikon

[Anonymous Coward]

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

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[NanoGator]

"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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[mkro]

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.