We don’t think that the ability to access critical resources that have the potential to save lives and improve medical outcomes should be profitized. It enables members in the medical community to access information required to make a medical diagnosis and treatment plan. That feels an awful lot like a bait and switch tactic proffered at the expense of our open source community. While Pixmeo built a large and vibrant market by initially making their product freely available to the open source community, they now feel that they are sufficiently well known that they can remove the free and open from their product.
This affects everyone involved in the open source movement.Īt Purview and the Horos Project we reject this approach. It feels like it is not sufficient for Pixmeo to simply hobble their own open source version of OsiriX…they also want to do everything they can to hinder the usefulness of other open source projects. We’ve also heard from several of our customers, that Pixmeo has even gone so far to prohibit the use with Horos of perfectly good Plug-Ins that were developed for OsiriX. Of course, all of these functions are available if you are willing to license the commercial product: OsiriX MD from Pixmeo. Such features include:įurther, the number of studies has been throttled.
Critically important features have been removed from the open source version of OsiriX, OsiriX Lite. During the past few days we have seen what appears to be the final step in OsiriX’s move away from open source. It is important that you know of our unwavering support for open source software.
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