A few weeks ago, I wrote in my weekly column about people like Dvorak, whom I accused of writing sensationalistic articles just for ad revenue. For most of us, that was a prime example of kicking in open doors. Since those doors are all kicked in now anyway, Dvorak now actually has admitted that he writes controversal articles for the sole puprose of ad revenue. And it got taped.
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This won't surprise most people, it's long been public opinion that Dvorak was just spewing brown matter for cash.
Also, the video is down, the story hit /. only two hours after OSNews. Fortunately, someone on /. put up this link to a torrent of the video: http://s3.amazonaws.com/scripting/dvorak.mov?torrent
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I am just waiting you to admit that you post troll news for sole purpose of ad revenue ...
As said a million times-- OSNews doesn't get ad revenue. All our "revenue" from ads (which is not at all a lot of money) goes directly to the server guy. We, as in, Eugenia, David, Adam, and I, get zero, squat from it.
It's all volunteer work.
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People are giving Dvorak a hard time, but are his silly little 'rants for ad revenue' and different to the so-called 'studies' by the Yankie Group, IDC, and the likes; so-called promises of "Itanium shipments by 2008 will be worth $10billion" and other fanciful tea-leaf readings and "Windows NT will replace UNIX"? neither have happened, and yet, we have MBA wizzkids, running businesses into the ground, taking these soothsayers words as if they held more weight than my prediction that America's top export by 2050 will be pink fluffy bunny rabbits.
UNIX is still alive and kicking, Itanium is stuck in a niche, and Windows NT is still being laughed at like the uncoordinated kid on the sports team.
As for this site, I doubt that Thom has the time to organise a complicated network of trolls to target this site and cause problems; unfortunately for every one good post, there are a whole heap of wankers out there who seem to have converted to a new technology and have become the born again zealot; the Linux user who has used Linux for 3 months, but been a windows zealot since year dot; the so-called 'computer expert' whose only exposure to IT is via a PC loaded with Windows XP; the so-called Mac expert whose technical expertise goes no further than to bitch about consistancy and wanking on about how MacOS is based on FreeBSD (which is completely incorrect).
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Dvorak gets paid to write. Anyone who thinks his articles are purely his opinion needs to come back to Earth. It is just entertainment. If you are not entertained by his stuff, quit reading it. The rest of us will continue to enjoy what he writes and will take it with a grain of salt like we always have. Until there is an "open source" movement in writing, the people cutting the paychecks will continue to decide what gets written and when. It is called capitalism. Enough of a rant.
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You must mean "without cost" and not "open source." There is plenty of free writing available on the Internet. Things like blogs, web forums, usenet, and so forth. If anything, directly paid authorship is probably the minority on the Internet. The nature of the content differs in some cases, but considering that Dvorak is not a particularly imaginative polemic being different can only be a benefit.
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If the sole bases for him generating revenu is based on the information here about his Mac antics, then why is it now all of a sudden something big? Dvorak has been writing predictions since the early days in PC Mag. I remember he made the (informed?) prediction that software would stop using version numbering schemes and instead use years for their model. This was when Windows 3.11 was the king of the block and we had already lived through years of software using the same cumbersome scheme. Yes, if that was entertainment, then it was good entertainment as I did see his point and the coming evolution even though that era is now passing.
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Isn't getting hits, and generating ad revenue, what your series "What sucks about DEs" all about?
I mean, the rants in this series are otherwise rather pointless, aren't they?
Sure, a little constructive criticism can help improve things.
But just look at the comment count for those articles.
Well done, Thom, with your Dvorak strategy!! ;-)
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Read this comment: http://www.osnews.com/permalink.php?news_id=14864&comment_id=132306
Then you'll understand 'getting hits' or ad revenue is of no interest to us.
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