That's a sensible stance and I don't disagree in principle, the problem is that I feel there are too few people that fall into that camp and a fair amount of them have had their brains absolutely cooked and believe they do, while they absolutely do not.

Of course I don't have any real data to back those assumptions up, it's not the kind of thing you're going to get solid data on, mostly just observations. I'd like to think the Linux kernel devs are a cut above, but given the state of things my faith is in the gutter.