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  Anonymous Coward, 25 Nov 2003 @ 1:10pm

  
  

  I wouldn't take Liebowitz's stuff at face value...

  Liebowitz's papers always seemed a bit fishy to me. He seems to have set out to prove that there are no such things as network externalities or path lockin, including with regard to, e.g., Microsoft operating systems. That position is nonsense on its face, and certainly none of his protestations to the contrary hold up well enough to change my mind.
  
  Liebowitz is also responsible for some papers giving pretty absurd cost estimates for the Microsoft breakup proposal in the anti-trust case . (Sponsored by the Association of Competitive Technology, and guess who's a big corporate member...)
  
  A more recent paper of his concludes that music downloading is the only explanation for the recent decline in music sales, and that this is causing significant harm to the industry (though he concedes that it may not be "fatal").
  
  See http://www.mwbrooks.com/dvorak/dissent.html for one rebuttal of his Dvorak paper.

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  xman, 26 Nov 2003 @ 4:24am

  
  

  This is not true

  If you do some looking around you will find that there is a lot of material debunking the arguments in this paper. There is still no clear winner!

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  Anonymous Coward, 3 Jun 2008 @ 12:05pm

  
  

  Dvorak is not a myth. Just a puffed

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  Anonymous Coward, 3 Jun 2008 @ 12:39pm

  
  

  -up legend. With no widely accepted research, only theory, behind it.

  I wish that someone would conduct a comprehensive study of the relative value of the Dvorak, QWERTY, and now Colemak keyboard layouts. Maybe then we could settle the arguments over whether Dvorak is a little better than QWERTY or vastly superior.
  
  I especially wish economists would stop trying to be keyboard experts, just because they want to validate their beliefs.
  
  If you switch to Dvorak, you might become faster, you might make fewer errors, but there's a really good chance that you'll type a lot more comfortably.

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