OpenRAW

James, you appear to have a knee-jerk reaction to any mention of DNG!

If you studied it, you would realise that it is not what you fear. You certainly don't have to buy Adobe to use it, as you suggest above!

Yeah, it's more of a gag-reflex.

Creating an Adobe owned standard digital film would be worse than PC companies shipping exclusively Windows OS. It would not allow for any comparable alternative ... sure, jpeg ... but that's compressed and have you ever tried enlarging an even minimally compressed JPEG? Not to mention the level of control allowed inherently with the RAW format.

Adobe having control over such a standard, determining when and how upgrades would be implemented and specifically tailoring it to be optimized with Photoshop ... Where's the competition there? I've heard from multiple fields of photography that "Photoshop is the digital standard" already established in a dominant position.

It would be a tragic error on the part of an initiative such as this to promote a further monopolistic dominance for Adobe and as it seems by most of the DNG supporters to not even consider alternatives in independent fields to be developed towards a UNIVERSAL benefit.

"Adobe already made a generic RAW format ... they're the big kid on the block ... let's individually support they're subjugation of the digital photography market."
Well, that sounds stupid to me.

Adobe having control over such a standard, determining when and how upgrades would be implemented
Creating an Adobe owned standard digital film would be worse than PC companies shipping exclusively Windows OS.
Wow. Have you any idea at all what the word "open" means?
Not to mention the level of control allowed inherently with the RAW format.
Have you read the DNG spec? Even a high-level description of it? Here it is: PDF. Guess what? It allows RAW files to be stored completely in the DNG format. Nothing at all is lost.