Linux World domination (was Re: [NCLUG] PC for Linux (Ubuntu))

[grant at amadensor.com]

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> This may be true for something similar to a solitaire game or music
> sharing application, most of which I suspect are written by
> "uneducated" (read self-educated) people already.  If you are talking
> about an enterprise application or piece of software used regularly by
> a large number of consumers, there are plenty of successful companies
> using a business model that charges for support.
>
> Then again I may be biased since I have very little formal training
> (or interest, really) in "Software Engineering".  Truthfully I could
> care less if programming became something every citizen learned in
> school, sort of like that other written language they make us all
> learn (read English).
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Everyone learns algebra, but not everyone can be a mathematician. Just  
because everyone learns it, that does not mean it will become a  
commodity.   I have worked with plenty of people who are employed as  
programmers that don't really have the aptitude.  I imagine that since  
they are doing this for a living, and have degrees in it, that they  
have a lot more aptitude than the general public.  It takes a certain  
sort of person to be good at programming.   Just like I could never be  
an accountant even though I learned math in school, some people could  
never be programmers even if it was a required subject.