John Dvorak

John Dvorak, noted industry curmudgeon, has taken an intense dislike to the OLPC XO. Nobody knows why, because the reasons he gives in his columns don't make sense. %<[

Dvorak

• The woeful tale of the $100 laptop The true cost of a futile effort to equip the Third World Nov. 15, 2006

• One Laptop per Child Doesn't Change the World 12.04.07

Responses

Pro OLPC, anti Dvorak

• Dvorak: falling for Intel, MS, OLPC line December 11th, 2007
• Dvorak's Mind Share Shame: Junk Computers "To the surprise of some, this is where I disagree with Dvorak and actually completely agree with OLPC." Wayan Vota, November 18, 2006.

Pro Dvorak, anti OLPC

• PCMags Dvorak Sees OLPC As Elitist Insult 06 December 2007

Pro OLPC, not needing to reference Dvorak at all

• John Dvorak should just go ask Rufus. The experience of this ten year-old boy in England, using one of the first XO laptops, says it all more eloquently than any adult could.