adoption politics (Score 1)

I think the adoption politics of new keyboard layouts is analygous to changing the world over to linux. The alternative has to be significally better and even then you still need to be patient. After all, these issues are *tightly* tied into our culture. It *is* possible, however. This keyboard layout tackles one of the most difficult issues of introducing new standards by reducing the difficulty in learning how to use it. Unlike keyboard layouts designed for efficiency (or inefficiency) this keyboard's layout is completely logical...to everyone who uses a computer. [Aside: Imagine for example if toddlers were playing around on their parents [alphbetical] keyboards how much ready they'd be for learning the alphabet.] We're all already familiar with this order. I'll admit to feeling a little uneasy with the keyboard's multiple meanings for each key, but if schools/states/nation-states were to simply take a chance and adopt this standard it would open up the possibility of many more variations on this keyboard. Variations on the "New Standard Keyboard" that also used an alphabetical layout would be similarly easy to learn...and that's the point.