duas qualidades fundamentais

CGDD colocou um post sobre seus problemas com o mundo corporativo (link) . Concordo com quase tudo que ele coloca, mas discordo apenas sobre o fato de que acho possível chegar ao big money pelo conhecimento. A forma mais comum é através de consultoria independente. Mas isso fica para outra discussão.
Um fato comum é que as gerações de computeiros, tanto as mais antigas como a geração unix e a nossa geração MSX, como a mais nova geração linux, tem dois pontos fundamentais. Respeito a liberdade e a valorização da competência. Um documento fundamental de todas essas gerações é o "How to Become a Hacker", do guru Open Source , programador fantástico e escritor Eric S. Raymond. Citando dois tópicos fundamentais:

"4. Freedom is good.

Hackers are naturally anti-authoritarian. Anyone who can give you orders can stop you from solving whatever problem you're being fascinated by — and, given the way authoritarian minds work, will generally find some appallingly stupid reason to do so. So the authoritarian attitude has to be fought wherever you find it, lest it smother you and other hackers.

(This isn't the same as fighting all authority. Children need to be guided and criminals restrained. A hacker may agree to accept some kinds of authority in order to get something he wants more than the time he spends following orders. But that's a limited, conscious bargain; the kind of personal surrender authoritarians want is not on offer.)

Authoritarians thrive on censorship and secrecy. And they distrust voluntary cooperation and information-sharing — they only like ‘cooperation’ that they control. So to behave like a hacker, you have to develop an instinctive hostility to censorship, secrecy, and the use of force or deception to compel responsible adults. And you have to be willing to act on that belief.

5. Attitude is no substitute for competence.

To be a hacker, you have to develop some of these attitudes. But copping an attitude alone won't make you a hacker, any more than it will make you a champion athlete or a rock star. Becoming a hacker will take intelligence, practice, dedication, and hard work.

Therefore, you have to learn to distrust attitude and respect competence of every kind. Hackers won't let posers waste their time, but they worship competence — especially competence at hacking, but competence at anything is valued. Competence at demanding skills that few can master is especially good, and competence at demanding skills that involve mental acuteness, craft, and concentration is best.

If you revere competence, you'll enjoy developing it in yourself — the hard work and dedication will become a kind of intense play rather than drudgery. That attitude is vital to becoming a hacker."

A citação é devida, já que acho que os problemas apontados por CGDD estão relacionados a violação dos itens 4 e 5 acima, e estão entre os maiores problemas enfrentados no mundo corporativo.