[redeeman]

pretty sure they would lose a lot of sleep if no third party application could open their raw

[ChrisMarshallNY]

You'd be surprised.

They lost sleep over having images from their devices looking bad.

They wanted ultimate control of their images, and they didn't trust third-party pipelines to render them well.

[redeeman]

so you think they'd be all happy if nobody could open the raw files in adobe software?

[ChrisMarshallNY]

Yup.

Not kidding. These folks are serious control freaks. They are the most anal people I've ever met, when it comes to image Quality.