Re: members are invited to be lead Plaintiffs in the Qwerty class act

I fail to see the basis of a class action suit against Microsoft or 
Apple over Dvorak.   They have made it easy to switch to Dvorak by 
including it in their operating systems.   If there was any consumer 
demand they would probably make dual label keyboards or even Dvorak 
labeled keyboards.   I think that Apple may have had a dual labeled 
keyboard option in their early years.   Apple 2, maybe?    I think to 
succeed is such a suit, you would have to prove that there was large 
demand for such keyboards, that the companies had some legal obligation 
to provide such keyboards, that they refused, and that their monopoly 
prevented consumers from obtaining such keyboards from other sources.

I don't think that the operating system companies or the hardware 
companies are obligated to promote or force the use of Dvorak when the 
public is not interested.    Seems to me that the problem is the 
organizations which actively work to prevent the use of Dvorak: Schools, 
libraries, GRE and other testing services, various companies and system 
administrators.    As long as major institutions are allowed to force 
the use of Qwerty, then Dvorak will always be at a major disadvantage.   
Seems to me that Microsoft and Apple and other Operating Systems have 
done their best to make Dvorak available.   The problem is in other 
directions.

I do think that legal, public, political action is warranted and could 
be successful against institutions which force the use of Qwerty and 
actively prevent the use of Dvorak.   But, a legal action should be the 
last step after all other reasonable attempts to correct the problem 
have been exhausted.    A parallel effort should be to find examples of 
such institutions which do allow the use of Dvorak.  That would set a 
standard that other institutions could be compared to.