Dvorak at it again…

Tuesday, May 17th, 2005

NOTE: John C. Dvorak is NOT the inventor of the Dvorak keyboard layout. That would be giving the guy to much credit.

In his latest brainspasm misfit, which was accidentally mistaken for an article by PCMagazine.com, John C. Dvorak goes at it again. More ludicrous nonsense by Dvorak! Read all about it! This time Dvorak takes a pretty weak stab at the same Linux community that ridicules him each time he spouts his nonsense into something resembling a tech-column. Here, check it out:

Linux Community Implodes
By John C. Dvorak

The weirdest thing I’ve seen lately has been the craziness provoked by a feud between tech writer Maureen O’Gara of LinuxGram/Linux Business News and her apparently bitter rival, blogger Pamela Jones (PJ) of Groklaw. It began some time back when the two exchanged barbs over intimations that Jones was somehow a stooge for IBM in the SCO-Linux battle and that O’Gara was somehow a stooge for SCO.
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So over the past week O’Gara tracked down and photographed PJ’s home and PJ’s mother’s home and posted pics in her column, with veiled accusations that the entire Groklaw site is a front for IBM in its battle with SCO. Once this article appeared, all hell broke loose in the Linux community, with editors scrambling.
Well, duh! There’s something the Linux community has that seems to be missing from most of the rest of the world. Ethics. Stalking and posting somebody and their mother’s personal information on the internet seems kinda, well, unethical. It could even border on harassement.

Oh, brother. In the olden days, O’Gara would have been given a medal for generating readership. But in today’s world of the so easily offended, she’s apparently let go instead, and things calm down as the hissy fit subsides.
The times, they are-a-changing. For the better.

That said, the Linux community figures that O’Gara is being paid by SCO or Microsoft or someone bad
Bzzzzzt! Wrong! Sorry Dvorak, you don’t make it to the next round. The Linux community said (in general) they wouldn’t be surprised if she were. Crazier things have happened. Try crawling out of your cave sometimes.. strawmen are real and so is using them for the purpose of spreading FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt).

It appears to me that O’Gara is just being overly provocative to get readers.
Oh, you mean like that one guy.. Uhhhmm, what’s his name? DVORAK, that’s right!

I can tell you that my mere mentioning of any of this will result in incredibly hateful attempted postings on this forum and on my moderated blog. What is wrong with these people?
Oh right, it’s not like you were asking for it, is it? Please Dvorak, stop being a little child who’s mad because the group of cool kids won’t play with you and think you’re a loon instead.

PCMagazine would do good firing this guy. Dvorak makes me want to puke, really. In fact.. I think I’ll ban PCMagazine from now on just because they carry articles by Dvorak.

BAN DVORAK

Update: Slashdot article. Read all +3 posts and above for my oppinion voiced by other people. Thank you.

Update II:

cat /etc/hosts | grep pcmag
127.0.0.1	pcmag.com	www.pcmag.com

cat news.php | grep -C2 dvorak

if (
  strpos(strtolower($item["title"]), "google") === false &&
  strpos(strtolower($item["title"]), "dvorak") === false
) {
  // Show news item

In other words. No more dvorak in my RSS newsreader and no more visiting www.pcmag.com.