8 Feb
2008
8 Feb
'08
2:15 a.m.
On 07-Feb-08, at 7:44 PM, Nishit Dave wrote:
Strange how sysadmins dislike laypeople with geek qualities.
not at all strange - generally software professionals (people 'trained' in CS or IT) are terrified of laymen with geek qualities. I mean if any 'idiot' can do sysadmin then their jobs are on line. Which is why software professionals are the biggest obstacle to the foss movement - again they are terrified that their jobs are on line. This is nothing new - in all domains, people with domain knowledge try to keep that knowledge to themselves and are hostile to any laymen encroaching on their domains. Think ekalavya.
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Kenneth Gonsalves
Associate, NRC-FOSS
lawgon@au-kbc.org
http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/
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