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Re:Subscribers are the new, new thing in business by dingaling on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @02:00PM (#16813704)
The other downside being that if you stop paying, or Adobe stops providing, you can no longer work natively with your PSD and DNG files.

That's a huge business risk. And as searching for 'Creative Cloud suspended' shows, it's not theoretical.

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Re:Subscribers are the new, new thing in business by parliament32 on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @02:48PM (#16814190)
DNG is an open format: "Use of the file format is royalty-free; Adobe has published a license allowing anyone to exploit DNG, and has also stated that there are no known intellectual property encumbrances or license requirements for DNG. Adobe stated that if there were a consensus that DNG should be controlled by a standards body, they were open to the idea."

See also: http://www.barrypearson.co.uk/articles/dng/products_y7.htm

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