{"id":5038,"date":"2010-10-10T22:35:03","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T20:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/?p=5038"},"modified":"2010-10-11T22:26:10","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T20:26:10","slug":"impossible-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/news\/impossible-choice","title":{"rendered":"Impossible choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Packt-publishing, big on books about Open Source, now wants us to &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.packtpub.com\/open-source-awards-home\/vote-open-source-graphics-software\">Vote for our favorite Open Source Graphics Software to win<\/a>&#8216;. It is a clever campaign I guess: data about popular applications should be useful in deciding what books will sell. Packt gives away one proprietary e-reader to a random voter and I only hope there is also a generous donation to the winning projects (no mention of any on the Packt site).<br \/>\nWhat a strange idea that I would want to choose between Inkscape, Blender, Scribus, Gimp and jmonkeyengine. How counterproductive to assume competition between complementary projects. Imagine asking a carpenter whether she likes her hammer better than her screwdriver?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/win.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"win\" width=\"242\" height=\"171\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5044\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/win.png 242w, http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/win-100x71.png 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Packt-publishing, big on books about Open Source, now wants us to &#8216;Vote for our favorite Open Source Graphics Software to win&#8216;. It is a clever campaign I guess: data about popular applications should be useful in deciding what books will sell. Packt gives away one proprietary e-reader to a random voter and I only hope [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[130,213,312],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5038"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5038"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5058,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5038\/revisions\/5058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}