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Unusual that this is from the man who is "into the whole ergonomic split layout thing": http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/02/have-keyboard-will-...

Obviously opinions change, or other factors have prevailed in the design of this

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I would buy an ergonomic version of the CODE keyboard in a heartbeat, and tweeted as much to Jeff Atwood. I guess we'll have to wait and see if he's willing to do that.

There could be other considerations -- I wouldn't be surprised if there were patents around keyboard layouts, specifically the ergonomic keyboard. That could keep other companies from making ergonomic keyboards.

A quick google search pulls up the following patents:

http://www.google.com/patents/US5612691

And then there's this:

http://www.macworld.com/article/1034680/mskeyboard.html

I told Jeff the same thing.

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