Don't fight for your limitations.

Not that I am a lawyer but if you can get cigarrette manufacturers to pay damages for your personal choice to smoke, or Asbestos manufacturers to pay for damage.  This is a slam dunk.  Everyday of the year from 10,000 to 20,000 totally needless operations are performed. People are suffering.  

As for that claim that they made it easy to switch not so.  I've been switching keyboards using the Windows systems since 1995 and with each successive version it gets harder and harder to find where to switch over.

Trust me they are shitting bricks.  And I certainly don't think that they are stupid enough to even offer a defense.  This situation is similar to the situation when it was found out about AZT being able to slow down AIDS.  The government ordered the release of all trial studies and released the drug to the population in general.

I just redid the post at http://tinyurl.com/cure-carpal-tunnel-syndrome 

Keith please review.

--- In [email protected], Paul Martzen <paul_martzen@...> wrote:
>
> 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.
>