Fascinating viewpoint, Mike, and undoubtedly valid (from your perspective). However it is rather claiming special privilege for IT as against any other technical product. As an analogy, one buys a car and decides to fit an accessory - say a towbar. One would therefore have to take a course in garage mechanic-ing in order to do so?? plus the manufacturers of said towbar would generate unclear terminology for the components in order to force customers to employ garages to carry out the work - this in spite of the fact that all cars have the fixing points already installed to allow simple attachment. Not an exact comparison, perhaps but covers the generalities. Additionally,. why is the WiFi arena so littered with 'geek speak' and traps for the unwary when the basic computer build is relatively straightforward and 'Lego-like' in concept and execution? Just to provide employment for the techies?
I would have supposed that far from cutting off your livelihood, designing a piece of software to automate what ought (in tnis day and age ) to be simple, would give you an income stream for a life of leisure!!
