a4000 Impressions
You have some good points, and in fact, taken to the extremes, datatype
libraries for file-conversions would make me a bit nervous if that were my
'business' too <grin>.
On the other hand, if I owned AdPro, I'd more likely buy ImageMaster if
I knew that both programs could use the same file-formats… just cuts out
the middle-man (unfortunately, InterChange, in (not neccesarily) this
case).
Ignoring pirates (hard to say if there be 'more' of them with regard to
libraries vs programs), there will now be a potential market for new
datatypes packages.
– Keith