Dvorak on Creative Commons 522
pHatidic writes "In a recent article, John Dvorak trashes creative commons as being, 'one of the dumbest initiatives ever put forth by the tech community. I mean seriously dumb. Eye-rolling dumb on the same scale as believing the Emperor is wearing fabulous new clothes.' His main arguments are that CC unnecessarily complicates copyright law, and that the name sounds dumb."
Get over yourself, John. (Score:5, Funny)
I made Front Page (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Dvorak: -10 Troll (Score:2, Funny)
I second the motion, all those in favor?
But seriously, let's reword the article a little bit:
'one of the dumbest men ever put forth by the tech community. I mean seriously dumb. Eye-rolling dumb on the same scale as believing the Emperor is wearing fabulous new clothes.' Our arguments are that Dvorak unnecessarily complicates keyboarding, and that his name sounds dumb."
Much better in my opinion.
Re:Agreed (Score:5, Funny)
No no, the keyboard: try to read the article, and it quickly becomes obvious it was written by someone normally writing on a qwerty keyboard, with a dvorak keyboard, while looking away at the cute secretary down the hall...
Re:Some uses for novelists, some criticisms (Score:3, Funny)
I don't see any "Copyright 2005" in his article, so I guess that means I won't get in trouble for posting the article text about five minutes ago.
Much, much more! (Score:5, Funny)
He also has the same last name of that guy that made that keyboard layout!
He's a dork. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Dvorak: -10 Troll (Score:4, Funny)
One Dvorak alleviates the wrists. The other aggravates the brain.
Re:Nothing to see here, move along. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I made Front Page (Score:5, Funny)
1) Mention Google....is it rumored that Google may buy a company that searches pictures of toenails online? Front page baby.
2) Link to any article proposing a bug or flaw with anything Microsoft. Some 15 year old writes a blog saying he thinks the next version of Windows has "a bajillion security holes"? That's not only front page material, you're maybe even looking at duped front page material
3) Paul Graham wrote an article about his flower garden, and how he's a "hacker" for using fertilizer? You know that baby is front page material.
I'm sure i'm missing some others here....
Emperor's new clothes fairy tale (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Agreed (Score:3, Funny)
This is the idiot Dvorak.
The Collected Works of John C. Dvorak (Score:3, Funny)
Just imagine how many of us nerds will buy a copy just to burn it? And if it's printed on quality paper, it might even be the perfect quality to wipe your ass with!
And now for something completely different: Why is the underline tag not allowed?
Re:Nothing to see here, move along. (Score:3, Funny)
Why mess with success?
slight rewording produces truth (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Dvorak: -10 Troll (Score:3, Funny)
OMG (Score:1, Funny)
Dvorak has offspring? Run! For the love of god, run!
Re:Creative Commons (Score:4, Funny)
1998 Folks, the Mac platform is through - totally.
1990 I think Windows 3.0 will get a lot of attention; people will check it out, and before long they'll all drift back to... DOS.
1986 UNIX is dead, but no one bothered to claim the body.
1984 The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a mouse. There is no evidence that people want to use these things.
- John Dvorak
Re:Creative Commons (Score:5, Funny)
I don't see what there is to be appreciative about there.
Try Bugroff License - It's simpler... (Score:2, Funny)
Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation [gnu.org] devised, in addition to some marvelous software, the GNU General Public License (GPL for short). Or the CopyLeft it is sometimes called.
It is quite a revolutionary document, using the "copyright" tool to to protect your right to use free software.
Unfortunately using copyright to protect free software is a lot like using a Jackal to guard the hens.
In fact, various inconveniences relating to this have resulted in modifications such as the LGPL (Library General Public License) and more recently the NPL (Netscape Public License) [mozilla.org]
I call these matters mere inconveniences, the real damage will occur when the Jackal's, (sorry, I mean lawyers), actually get to test the GPL in court for the first time.
Thus enter my version.
Its very simple.
Entirely consistent.
Completely unrestrictive.
Easy to apply.
The "No problem Bugroff" license is as follows...
The answer to any and every question relating to the copyright, patents, legal issues of Bugroff licensed software is....
Sure, No problem. Don't worry, be happy. Now bugger off.
All portions of this license are important..
OK so the last part of the license sounds a bit harsh, but seriously folks, if you are a :-
Re:Don't Go to His Site!!! (Score:3, Funny)