[Info-vax] openvms and xterm

[Scott Dorsey]

In article <v0j6re$ecea$1 at dont-email.me>, chrisq  <devzero at nospam.com> wrote:
>
>A cynic might say that the whole idea of systemd is to deskill
>system management, so that the half brain dead can be employed, rather
>than people who actually understand how systems work.

The end result of that sort of thing is kind of the opposite, in that you
wind up with a large number of unskilled admins and a small number of very
skilled admins.  You can see precisely that in the Windows world.

Lots of guys who don't really understand how anything works inside, who
get paid very little.  And a small number of people whom you can call when
those guys fail, but who charge an enormous amount.  Just ask around about
people who can read Windows crash dumps.  They are out there, but they are
very few, and they can charge whatever they want.  Whereas people who know
linux internals are not really that rare.

VMS has always been interesting in that you can't see the source code, but
if you had support you could pick up the phone and talk to someone who 
had the source in front of them.  
--scott
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