Comments on: OpenRAW

By: Chris Kitze

Chris Kitze — Wed, 18 May 2005 18:18:50 +0000

Open standards generally are most effective and beneficial in markets that need interoperability with third party software, content or between users.

But this does not mean people and companies are always rational.

Without standards, a single company could win a "standards" war, force consumers to accept their standard and become a virtual monopoly (i.e. Microsoft or Adobe .PDF). Alternatively, other market participants (users or companies) balk at the offerings due to a lack of clear standards, slowing market adoption and forcing the companies to adopt a standard across vendors (i.e. CD's, DVD's).

By: Paul Gowder

Paul Gowder — Tue, 17 May 2005 19:59:33 +0000

This is a grievance I have with PDAs too. Anyone ever tried to get a palm OS PDA to convert directly to a windows PDA? (As in, without the mediation of a desktop computer, and without beaming each of thousands of individual entries.) Or, for that matter, tried to get palm OS PDA info to open directly in an ascii editor?

By: Christian Cantrell

Christian Cantrell — Mon, 16 May 2005 15:26:23 +0000

I think this is partially true, but then there are the folks who specifically want more proprietary solutions that they can buy support for.

By: Juergen Specht

Juergen Specht — Mon, 16 May 2005 00:07:32 +0000

Thanks a lot for pointing to OpenRAW. We might should have a little chat about this if you are interested.

Thanks,

Juergen