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Dvorak on the LinuxWorld Fracas
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.' "
No, he's just doing what he's always done -he alludes to it right in his article. "In the olden days, O'Gara would have been given a medal for generating readership."
He writes an article for the sole purpose of upsetting a large group of people, because he knows it will generate tons of hits (that's the name of the game). In the old days, there was a word for this, Troll.
Then in a week or two he'll write another article about how offended he was by all the lunatics in whatever community he attacked previously.
Bonus points if he can incite someone to threaten him. If he gets 10,000 reasonble posts and one threat, he'll make the next article about that one threat, completely ignoring the rest.
Its a scam. And nobody does it better than Dvorak. He's not where he is because of the quality of his "journalism", its his ability to incite "hits".
Actually, I am.
I'm rather... sheepish... about this now. In fact, I wish I could delete a few posts. Why on earth would anyone listen to this guy if he wasn't the Dvorak I was thinking about?
Now I can stop reading his columns with even the shred of respect I had. Are the two related? It seems that Dvorak might be a rather rare name in the computer industry.
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