OpenRAW

A digital negative should belong wholly to the photographer. I am perfectly happy to have various camera companies compete on the basis of their camera bodies, their sensors, their optics and their sensor-to-file conversion algorithms. We all benefit from that competition. However, once the RAW file is written to memory, it should be completely open source and fully documented, so the photographer has full access to the digital negative that is the RAW file. To encrypt, or otherwise constrain, even a portion of the file and its metadata is to effectively withhold full ownership rights to the image, and that is TOTALLY unacceptable. Period.