So do you support competition or not?
Rewarding Canon for being dickish and refusing to license their lens communications protocols undermines competition. They'll never change unless people step up and buy Sigma.
That would be a terrible reason to buy a Sigma product.
you do realize that Sony opened their lens mounts up because they had few lenses, and these were old, and not competitive? You realize that Sony had no traction in the
DSLR market at all, no matter what they did, and that was why they went into the mirrorless market where there was no competition at all? No lenses at all there, so they had no choice but to open their mounts. They were desperate.
from their point of view, which for them is probably correct, both Canon and Nikon, with their tremendous lens lines, have no need to open their mounts. Why should they? No, not from your point of view, but from theirs. Both sell vast numbers of lenses. Third parties come to the game because of the large markets they represent. If they’re willing to make the effort, they can benefit from that. Most every lens manufacturer makes lenses for canon’s platform. They will for the R as well. They just need to see some traction. And Canon is setting a very high standard for others to follow. It won’t be easy for Sigma.