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Raw Therapee 3 Is Now Free Software

Posted by kdawson on from the eye-altering-alters-all dept.

kantier writes "The only (as far as I know) usable and free (as in beer) program for processing RAW photos outside Windows or OS X is now also free as in freedom. From version 3 onwards, the code is licensed under the GPL v3. The main developer's reasons for opening up the program are a lack of time/resources for full dedication, and a lack of interest in some parts of the program (likes to fiddle with image-processing algorithms, not so much the GUI part) — so the F/OSS model seems to be a perfect fit for this project."

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  1. Hey, Libertarians! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Guess what, you insufferable nincompoops? Our government is itself the product of a market system. Cities like New York, London, and San Francisco are successful precisely *because* of their enormous governments--they compete for capital, talent, and prestige against cities with small, ineffectual governments that are unable to effectively lure and corral said capital, talent, and prestige. And as goes the city, so go city-states and nations: Somalia, being a libertarian paradise, is a rather unpleasant place to live for non-ideologues. Somalians, those who can, vote with their feet and leave.

    Objectivism is nothing but selfishness with a philosophical bumper sticker stuck on its ass that somehow purports to elevate it to respectability. Objectivism will succeed as soon as human nature is purged of empathy, sympathy, love for one's family, love for one's community, love for humanity itself. In other words, never. The only people who take this shit seriously are earnest but naive college students with too much philosophy classes under their belt and no real life experience, 40-something assholes behind on their alimony payments, and nutjobs who horde guns in the woods and consider themselves to be part of the minutement militia, 2 centuries hence. Objectivism has as much a tenuous hold on reality as the KKK and neonazi skinheads. They deserve our attention as much as the mating habits of dung beetles. Oh yeah, I forgot, Ayn Rand is selfish racist classist elitist bitch. Am I making an impression on you here, you fruitcakes? Stay in the woods and spout your ignorant mumbo-jumbo, the real world doesn't need you. we'll take your selfish asocial bullshit seriously when hell freezes over.

    Now go suckle Ayn Rand's rotten tits some more and leave the rest of us alone, you stupid fucking Paultards.