Sliding in Stereo in both directions (Score 1)

This post was MOST interesting, the point of view very provocative. It reveals a dichotomy (I'm an engineer and can't spell, dammit) that could be lucrative and meaningful. And FUN, heaven forbid! I'm a mentally disabled mech engineer, and I first loaded Suse 6.2 last year at this time, with the help of my brother, the "God of Unix"... I didn't like the way it was working, so I took it off and started all over again, with the Unix God safely home in Switzerland, and got it going far better on my own - thank you very much... All of this keeping a running Win Box in another partition (that's so easy, why doesn't anyone just do that?) There, are, however some things that I had trouble "grokking"...Now, if a brain damaged gear head can "get this" what is the problem? The problem is, resistance to learning - and thank god for it. The problem is also, some BRAINS do not have the right HARDWARE to grok what an operating system (ANY OS) really does and how... THANK GOD! Linux SHOULD be what it is, and it should be kept the way it is. I think the right attitude is that those who CAN make it go, should CHARGE a REASONABLE FEE to come perform the magical stunt. The beauty of Linux/Unix is there's some things the Micro-Sausage crap simply doesn't do as well, and too many too powerful boxes that require Unix - and for us this is the gold mine. And a beautiful thing, because in the world of tecky-ness, paying niche's for independent, refuse to Poop when and where Big Brother tells us, are becoming ever more scarce and paying not enough. I think if Linux/Unix heads sold their time for about 1/3 of what the Micro-Sausage hacks do, we'd all be coming out ahead. And in the meantime, lets leave the learning curve where it is... We can be very helpful, if it's worth it :-) My 2 Cents, Slowride (this is what happens when outlaw bikers find the terminal)