OpenRAW.org survey
From the OpenRaw website: “OpenRAW is a Working Group of photographers and other people interested in advocating the open documentation of digital camera RAW files.”
Basically they are a group of concerned photographers who believe that whatever your digital camera produces is your digital negative and you should have completely ownership and control of the data as you took the picture. And the data format of the files should be open and public knowledge so people can write better tools to convert and handle those files. I of course do agree with that.
Anyway, they have a survey on their website which you should fill in if you have an opinion in this issue.
My photos are my artwork. And I really hope I can choose the software I edit them with. I want to support innovation and freedom and thus I am very happy to use UFRaw - an excellent Gimp plugin and standalone tool. While I should help the author with the workflow and user interface someday when I have the time, it still does a heck of a good job, supporting tone curves and basically has everything I need to make nice post-processing on my pictures. And it comes by default in Ubuntu, so it’s always there without extra effort 
February 12th, 2006 at 16:11
Yes, I love freedom as much as any other guy - but if the difference in quality between the free tool (ufraw) and the only-free-as-in-free beer (raw shooter essential, running under wine) is THAT big, I have to admit that I fall for the dark side (at least as far as my photos go) :-).
I think that ufraw (or better dcraw) has a long way to go - and that’s not in the UI department - to become comparable.