That's the charitable way of interpreting it. The less charitable way is that they're bitter that open-source has basically been used to train their replacement, and that they want to turn programming into effectively a guild-based profession to protect the jobs of those presently in the industry. Similar to the button-making guilds of the past, for instance.
> That's the charitable way of interpreting it
It's a good thing that "interpret people's comments charitably" is one of the top guidelines on this forum then
Well there is something between 'button making guilds' and 'go to bootcamp for 2 months to be a software engineer'
Every other profession does gatekeeping. Yet we dont see any animosity towards them for doing so. Infact we condone it.
I have animosity for most of them!