[acomjean]

Curmudgeon is the perfect term to describe.

He was a great part of TWIT. I liked his obscure software references (lotus Jazz was one I think).

He also found this new thing is like that old thing.

His non positive takes were a great addition to the show.

[donatj]

When Leo banned him is actually when I stopped listening to TWiT. Apparently he came back a few years later, but I never did.

[atlanta90210]

Leo finds out on air of John’s passing and is very respectful. Thank you Leo.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/windows-weekly-audio/i...

[ilikepi]

They talk about it in a couple segments because they held off at first until getting confirmation...here's the YouTube version with some timestamps:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcvPifFSUL0&t=32m29s

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcvPifFSUL0&t=47m12s

[pazimzadeh]

Apparently Dvorak was against net neutrality. He had the worst takes

https://us1.campaign-archive.com/?u=d0e55f319709994434570865...

[jjayjay]

I listened to his many pontifications about net-neutrality at that time.

His concern was not the theory and practice of "net-neutrality".

It was that "net-neutrality" was being used by various industry lobbyists and politicians at that time to justify the creation of a definition of "lawful traffic". By their definition, only "lawful traffic" would be subject to neutrality. Traffic that was not deemed "lawful traffic" would not be treated the same and could be shaped and blocked.

It was at the time that Pirate Bay was under constant legal attack (2015) and BitTorrent was the "unlawful traffic".

IMO this was a good take that not many journalists paid attention to.

[drewnick]

Thank you for giving us this nuance.

[0o_MrPatrick_o0]

The tech world needs good heels! His worst takes were some of his best!

[rbanffy]

> lotus Jazz

I actually remember that.