> I hear from various sources that Adoobe have tried very hard to get > co-operation from Canon and I am at a loss to understand Canon's > intransigent attitude.
All Japanese corporations (and, of course, not only the Japanese) try to play the proprietary game at first, and only give it up when either reverse engineering or market forces in the form of quantifiable lost sales to competitors make it obvious to them that remaining proprietary is no longer in their interest. Unfortunately, there is no real competition for the 1DS series at the moment, so Canon probably feel justified by the demand and sales figures to maintain their current attitude. Believe me, demand and sales figures are the only things which register at these corporations. I know. I did 9 years in R&D at Yamaha, developing electronic musical instruments. Plenty of poorly-designed products were sold by Yamaha, in the teeth of complaints by the likes of me. The reply from middle management was *always* "it sells well, so no problem". Mostly, these products' deficiencies were *not* fixed in the next year's model. Best regards Paul Ellis Mamatus Limited | http://www.mamatus.com Photography - Interactive Imaging - Apple Macintosh consultancy Tel +44 20 8341 9788 Mobile +44 7930 312554 Member of The Association of Photographers =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
