thrownaway122

The propensity to fight pointless wars is a human problem not specific to any particular grouping of humans.

I haven't found the functionality to change the value of ability voxels in Slicer yet -- in particular for sheets with corners supplied by the user. Is it there and I'm just being dumb?

I know that this is a long shot...

Is there any chance of having the sort of features that would be needed to manually tidy up the results of segmentations of 3D images (from CT scans). The sort of things I'm thinking about are.

1. The ability to overlay two voxel images in the same editing space (e.g. one for the original image and one for the segmentation with added alpha channels).

2. The ability to draw arbitrary sheets of voxels by e.g. selecting 3-4 voxels as the corners of the sheet.

3. In terms of image format one would need to handle images with e.g. float32 and int32 greyscale voxel values. Import and export of raw binary images would be nice.

Just wondering. Some of the proprietary 3D analysis suites have these editing features but as far as I know the FOSS solutions for 3D image processing don't include any editing functionality.

Please define stolen here? I highly doubt that most GPL code is 'stolen' according to the actual terms laid out in the GPL.

Except that not all judges strike things. A lot just rubber stamp whatever the Big Co rights holders has submitted.

On the other hand a lot of the time they need £40 for a hit of their drug of choice and it is unlikely you have nothing that can't be sold for £40.

Because apple don't have to contribute OSx stuff back to the BSDs (nor did Microsoft when they used a BSD networking stack in windows 95) but e.g. google do have to contribute android kernel stuff back.

You've still totally missed the point. Free software is not about helping you make money. It is about user freedom and improving the lot of the whole of humanity. (NB Free software does not mind if you make money - it is just not there to help you do so.)

> We bag commercial licenses for stealing developer freedom,

You have completely missed the point of the F in FOSS. It is not just about developer freedom but user freedom as in all users to modify (or pay to have modified for non-developers) code as they need.

This depends upon how you use the second screen! If you keep your email client open at all times and in view then of course it will distract you. However, if you keep several source files open at the same time then you can quickly switch between them.

Does this not lose the major advantage of a traditional package manager? Namely that I update openssh in one location and all my packages are now secure. Rather than having to update every package that depends upon openshh separately?

See my other post.

> Why would they also be a monopoly?

Because otherwise there would be a proliferation of licensing companies. This would lead to competition on price (good!) but also on standards/easier certification (bad?). Customer confusion also becomes an issue here - do you really want to have to research which licensing bodies have acceptable standards as well as which providers have good prices and results before everytime you cut your hair?

I think that the ideal option is that the licensing is run by a not for profit that has the government on its board but which is run at arms length.

I guess that traditional package managers could install a helper script or a config file early in the build system before the main package is finished.

The government is the trusted 3rd party.

They price gouge because it turns out that they have a monopoly. The private company would also price gouge because they would also be a monopoly - only you would not be able to lobby the private company and vote for a different one...