So it's just standard RGB values with a proprietary tag added on. Which makes the whole "replace all Pantones with black" thing even more needlessly assholish. They could have just replaced them with an equivalent standard color instead and barely anyone would have noticed, but it looks like they shot themselves in the foot and pissed a lot of people off.
Essentially, yes. Basically, Pantone's real product is ink / paint / a process for inking/painting. But they've also protected the process for specifying what colors of ink you want to use, because you can do that in this godforsaken hellworld.
So it's just standard RGB values with a proprietary tag added on. Which makes the whole "replace all Pantones with black" thing even more needlessly assholish. They could have just replaced them with an equivalent standard color instead and barely anyone would have noticed, but it looks like they shot themselves in the foot and pissed a lot of people off.
Essentially, yes. Basically, Pantone's real product is ink / paint / a process for inking/painting. But they've also protected the process for specifying what colors of ink you want to use, because you can do that in this godforsaken hellworld.