@Brother Laz said:
I have a great idea, let's change the driving licence procedure to require knowledge of the operation of electric and fuel cell cars! They're better!
While I'm not if favor of forcing any given vehicular architecture on potential drivers, I think it would be wise for them to have soem basic understanding of electric and fuel cell (and hydrogen, etc) cars and their operation. Moreover I feel that every driver should have some fundamental knowledge about the workings of their vehicle. Not to assemble it from parts (not many people make their own linux distro, even less make their own flavor of Microsoft Windows or OS X), but rather enough to be able to understand how to change tires, not just their own, but other types too.
If the metaphore is too opaque; in computing this means computer users, in general, should know that there are various OS choices, and they should understand the fundamentals of using a person computer; those fundamentals should be generalized sufficiently that they can apply that knowledge to whatever OS they use. This would save us from massively infected windows populations and smug non-windows-os users, who somehow believe that their OS is immune. It would save me from getting calls from my wife about how to open a particular type of file, when she already knows which program to use to do so. It would save companies money, because they would be able to, in true capitalist fashion, shift to different OSes in order to save money and perhaps repurpose old high-end (used to be high end, I mean) machines for now low-end purposes.