Zeiss CZI

[PD Dr. M. Weihrauch]

I totally disagree with the idiotic strategy of many microscope scanner
vendors to keep the file formats proprietary. Usually, opening file
formats adds to your business (as well as offering a good API).
Especially for Universities like ours (Cologne), where we have more than
3 different types of scanners scattered across different departments,
exchange of files and collaborations would be easier, if there wouldn't
be these file-barriers.

Out of interest: is it "illegal" to decipher a file format and offer a
way to open the files? Probably not, if not patented, right?

Thanks for your great work.

Martin

Am 02.08.2014 20:30, schrieb Benjamin Gilbert:
> On 08/02/2014 04:55 AM, PD Dr. M. Weihrauch wrote:
>> Is there a (planned) support of the Zeiss CZI format by OpenSlide?
> Hi Martin,
>
> Yaël Balbastre has been working on adding CZI support.  Yaël, any updates?
>
>> On their website, they say that they'll send a documentation of the
>> format, if requested.
> That requires consent to a click-through license agreement.  I am unable 
> to agree to its terms, so this is not very useful to me personally. 
> Other developers may take a different view, of course.
>
> --Benjamin Gilbert
>
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