1890503
submission
MessyBlob writes:
If a company pays for a home Internet connection for an employee, is it entitled to request usage logs for their own purposes? Before you start sniggering, this really is a hypothetical question, and I figured the answer would be of interest to Slashdot readers, of all countries.
470412
submission
MessyBlob writes:
Users of Microsoft Office are repeatedly engaging Microsoft about the openness of their file formats. While this battle is raging, the massive digital camera user base should see the opportunity to ride this tide of publicity to their advantage, because they too are affected by a similar problem. Digital camera manufacturers are renowned for dropping support for cameras, releasing an encrypted format with a new camera, or just going bust. Over time, this would leave most people with a collection of raw-format files that can't be opened.
Although the Openraw campaign is a few years in the making, the challenges facing raw images are the same as for Office files. Indeed it can be argued that the raw situation is more complicated, and in need of some good brainstorming, because of the number of manufacturers competing in the market. Could a unified open format be the answer, or can we get by if manufacturers openly documented their formats? Is this the best time to raise awareness about digital raw files?
