YES I AM PROUD...even though at this point I am feeling as foolish continuing this dialog as you look doing the same.
Really? Go back and reread your contributions to the thread...you take the side of the camera makers even though you have no valid reasons (that I can see).
You mention that you don't want Nikon and Canon to suffer restrictions to their progress (even though there is zero evidence that adopting a standard would stifle their technical advances–which it wouldn't).
You say you are not against DNG and that you really don't want your raw images to survive you–just the manipulated images you've produced.
You admit that you are not a photojournalist but clearly you've not considered the plight that professionals in different genres of photography face. And apparently you couldn't care less (which is telling)
In spite of the concerns that have been put out there by the Library of Congress about the future access to digital objects in the future, you think what Nikon and Canon are doing isn't risky and putting the long term conservation and preservation of today's digital images at risk for posterity.
And you think I've been attacking you (while what I'm attacking is your arguments). I guess you never really engaged in healthy debate in school? I'm not attacking you...I don't know you from Adam. I am attacking your narrow minded, and ill-informed points of view.
Rather than actually debating the issues, you seem to want to paint me as a shill for Adobe–which is an ad hominem attack. You attack me while I attack your ideas–do you know the difference?
You ain't gonna win this one bud...you've already painted yourself into a corner with the weaknesses of your own arguments.
You don't like me (nor Andrew), I get that...I don't care. The whole reason I'm still responding to you is to drive home the arguments for other people who may be reading this thread. I just want to expose your arguments as being part of the problem and not part of any solution.
Oh, and it's fun...yes, I'll admit it's fun picking holes in your arguments (partially because you make it so easy :~)
(sorry, couldn't resist)