Dvorak on Creative Commons

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."

Comments

Get over yourself, John.

[TripMaster Monkey]

From TFA:

I mean my grandkids will own all my writing exclusively until 75 years after I'm dead,

Oooooooh...lucky, lucky grandkids. Imagine owning the collected works of the great John Dvorak...that and a quarter will buy you half a candy bar.

I made Front Page

[pHatidic]

My first ever front page article. Time to start drinking! :)

Re:I made Front Page

[Momoru]

Other ways to get a front page article on slashdot:

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....

Re:Agreed

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

Dvorak? The composer?

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...

Much, much more!

[77Punker]

He's much more than just a bombastic flamer with no grasp of the happenings of the computing world.

He also has the same last name of that guy that made that keyboard layout!

Re:Nothing to see here, move along.

[prgrmr]

Some writers are paid by the article, or even the column inch. Dvorak, apparently, is paid per the strawman.

Re:Creative Commons

[Unequivocal]

Looks like I need to add another quote to my long standing list of jack-assery from Dvorak:

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

[cpt kangarooski]

But I genuinely appreciate the value of boiler-plate licenses. They are an attempt to bring the law down to the layman's level and not continue paying lawyers to further complicate it.

I don't see what there is to be appreciative about there.