Digital BW, The Print

Ray Swanson writes:

> A standard still might be useful in spite of the
> obvious Adobe presentation. 
>
> These kinds of standards are useful in the long run as
> long as they aren't run by profiteers, that is,
> typical corporations.

Adobe is a typical corporation.

> And who can blame Adobe for trying?

People blame Microsoft for it all the time.  Some people blame Apple as
well.

> I think it's actually admirable of them to be
> doing what they're doing here. If they would hand it
> off to a user-run association or outfit, I'd stand up
> and clap.

Don't hold your breath.

> After shaking hands our ilk might even get into the
> public testing of inks, coatings, and media, and then
> we could all fly to tropical conventions with the
> manufacturers paying the bill... But before this could
> ever happen, there would have to be a group that
> agreed on an initial constitution/charter. I still
> think it's possible.

It's also true that anything that organized costs money and time, and
nobody is likely to pay into it for nothing, nor can most people afford
to commit large amounts of time to it without pay.  That's the problem
with all open-source or open-anything efforts.