>"Technically open" doesn't help much if each of those formats is primarily pushed by one mega-corp,
Then no Format is Open by your standard. Apple or Google refuse to support anything would instantly make that format not Open by your standard. And if Apple drop Jpeg, would Jpeg not be an open standard ?
What you are describing is politics, nothing to do with the standards itself.
>The only tool I found was Gimp
That is the problem with the tools. If Gimp Dev decide to take side in the format battle and not support it properly, then is that the fault of a standard?
>So then why isn't NetFlix working with the JPEG XL group to add the AV1 codec as one of the encoding options?
Because it doesn't work like that.
>Clearly, whatever they JPEG group is doing, it's not working.
> What you are describing is politics, nothing to do with the standards itself.
Standards are about convincing a large group of people to do something for the common good, sometimes going against their most direct best interests. Nearly a textbook definition of the word "politics".
> They are used in space other than the Web.
Yeah, the tiny, borderline non-existent space that is outside of: desktops, phones, tablets, web, email, collaboration, digital cameras, desktop publishing, or just about any mass-market use of computing you care to name that involves imaging.
The only usage of a JPEG standard other than the original JPEG I'm aware of is JPEG 2000. It has some niche uses for digital movie distribution to cinemas. Not streaming, not cable. Cinemas. Only.
Then no Format is Open by your standard. Apple or Google refuse to support anything would instantly make that format not Open by your standard. And if Apple drop Jpeg, would Jpeg not be an open standard ?
What you are describing is politics, nothing to do with the standards itself.
>The only tool I found was Gimp
That is the problem with the tools. If Gimp Dev decide to take side in the format battle and not support it properly, then is that the fault of a standard?
>So then why isn't NetFlix working with the JPEG XL group to add the AV1 codec as one of the encoding options?
Because it doesn't work like that.
>Clearly, whatever they JPEG group is doing, it's not working.
They are used in space other than the Web.