[Leica] Re:M8 DNG vs DMR DNG

[reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid)]

For the last couple of years my employer has been a nonprofit devoted to 
preventing commercialization of critical open standards. I spend a lot of 
time on this issue.

The critical issue on an "open standard" is not whether it is published, but 
who is allowed to change it. Or, to be really precise, who decides who is 
allowed to change it.

DNG will not meet the test of being an open standard until control of 
changes to the DNS specification is in the hands of a public consortium in 
which no single company has more than a 5% to 10% influence.

I like DNG and I use it, but I don't consider it to be an open standard. If 
there is ever an open standard that has enough momentum, I will use it 
instead.