@Jur - I have edited your post to remove your email signature with your numbers, etc. I just wanted to make sure that stayed hidden in case you didn’t mean for it to be posted. 
If it’s ok for it to be posted, I won’t bother with it in the future (and sorry).
Hi Pat,
That’s allright with me, thanks a lot Pat. I’m brand new here, and
didn’t know how the system works, but there’s some light shining now.
You’re right. Better don’t send signatures ;). Think it is wise to stay
somewhat anonimous and I’ll look after it in the future. 
And besides, you said sorry, but I’d call it service. ;-)))
Have a nice day,
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Hi Jur,
I agree the issue vendor lock-in is important for many reasons, but as a free software movement we’ve got to get our facts right too. For instance, LR uses the free software database sqlite3. There’s therefore no chance of vendor lock-in with respect to the database portion of LR, because we can use any sqlite3 tool to read it. For photographers, it means a FOSS tool can be written to convert an LR catalogue to a catalogue for another program, for example. Which is pretty cool, isn’t it!
Damon
RawTherapee uses dcraw only to decode raw files (in some cases it uses dcraw’s black and white levels and color matrices), nothing more. dcraw does not support sharpening.