Dvorak on the LinuxWorld Fracas 677
An anonymous reader writes "John C. Dvorak has entered the fray, offering his opinion on the O'Gara LinuxWorld flap. From the article: '...the Linux community is slowly evolving into a state of mob rule, with the cheerleaders being paranoid crackpot leftovers from the waning days of Amiga.' "
You dare defile Amiga!? (Score:5, Funny)
*smashes keyboard in half*
And I don't want to take your stupid little javascript survey either, damn I need a smoke.
who cares? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Brought to you by the letters A, B, C and D(vor (Score:2, Funny)
Stop Quoting Dvorak (Score:5, Funny)
As it is, all pending Dvorak story submissions should be entitled:
Opinions are like assholes - no one wants a whiff of Dvorak's.
A pundit moth chasing after the flames (Score:5, Funny)
Earning another medal then, John?
paranoid crackpots (Score:1, Funny)
If voicing my option about REAL BAD REPORTING and JOURNALISM makes me all that. Well heck I remember the Amiga. I guess that's me the "paranoid crackpot". This guy is clueless....
Whatever.... Time for my MEDS!
Re:Paranoid crackpots (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Cheap shot (Score:5, Funny)
And he should be careful not to paint and feather into a corner. When you mess with a bull you have to break a few eggs. Or something...
Hmmm (Score:4, Funny)
O'Gara = Jones!
This was just a scam to escalate O'Gara/Jones to a media frenzy!
Don't forget, Einhorn WAS Finkle! Finkle WAS Einhorn! Einhorn was a man!
Speaking of half assed (Score:1, Funny)
The oldest christian churches are what is commonly called the orthodoz christians.
You then had the italian church, Rome, which separated and became the Microsoft of Christianity (power, baby!). Then, yo have all the churrches that were created as offshoots as soon as some british monarch wanted to get laid, divorced or other. Then you have the fanatics like the ones that came to america and then you finally have all the american pseudo-christians that have polluted us for hte past 200 years, you know, the jehovah, the mormons and other such cults, not too mention, the R&B black churches where every other pro football player is a priest, or the tv evangelists crooks which swindle millions of people in the name of god.
Which church are you referring to?
All the US ones are start-ups that were created by crooks and certifiable nutjobs.
Whether its the Mormons magic underwear or Scientologists veneration of Xenu the overlord, there is no difference.
Machine compliment/insult recognition results! (Score:5, Funny)
Cheerleaders: Score +12. Hopefully naked cheerleaders.
Paranoid: +2. Everyone should be paranoid.
Crackpot: 0. Have you ever tried to smoke crack from a pot?
Leftovers: 0. Ambiguous score. Are they chinese takeout leftovers from last night, or 3 month old covered in an as yet unknown species of mold?
Amiga: + Eleventy trillion.
Author: +2. Has-been industry sycophant with mediocre technological expertise -3, shares surname with inventer of superior keyboard layout +5.
Total score: Eleventy trillion + 16. Dvorak would never compliment linux advocates, so this confirms my theory that he has mercury poisoning and is saying random things in his mad ranting. I vote to remove his feeding tube.
Gotta appreciate a good conspiracy... (Score:5, Funny)
It may be that this is actually a deep Astroturf PR campaign orchestrated by Microsoft to discredit open source and Linux.
Yeeaaahhhh.....that's the ticket: PJ isn't a stooge for IBM as O'Gara would purport. She's a stooge for MICROSOFT! Yes! That's it! Microsoft pays...no, no, wait, Microsoft invents PJ and has this so called "journalist" post some seemingly insightful but in hindsight clearly superficial and superfulous pro-Linux articles to gain acceptance and credibility among the Linux wackos. Now they pay O'Gara to pretend to aggrevate "PJ" with real and veiled threats, which sends PJ -- and therefore all of the Linux wacko sheep -- spiraling into oblivian and the entire Linux community implodes under its own weight.
That, my friend, is some solid investigative reporting.
Re:Time to call out the old folks (Score:3, Funny)
You didn't read that on slashdot!
Re:Dvorak's Logic Bypass (Score:4, Funny)
Well, I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition.
Re:Cheap shot (Score:4, Funny)
;^)
Re:Dvorak's 1996 impression of his Amiga (Score:4, Funny)
Bah, just further proof that Dvorak is a hack. His keyboard layout sucks, too. Pay him no a[tt]ention.
Re:I've done this. Professionally. I'm not proud. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Cheap shot (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Dvorak's 1996 impression of his Amiga (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Cheap shot (Score:3, Funny)
I think that Dvorak is just upset that he can no longer write articles under his "Maureen O'Gara" penname.