stay away till it becomes at least a defacto standard if not a proper open standard available as a default in every OS I'd reasonably want to use -- just like j

stay away till it becomes at least a defacto standard if not a proper open standard available as a default in every OS I'd reasonably want to use -- just like jpg, gif, png, bmp are today. I would rather compare it to raw than to jpeg. Looking how raw image formats face the problem of standarization (regardless of ISO 12234-2 - TIFF/EP), I wouldn't count on that happening soon. Currently photo manufacturers keep their raw formats proprietary, undocumented, and sometimes even obfuscated (opensource raw converters such as dcraw need to reverse engineer), so I doubt Lytro will behave differently.