vasyainv

You have a point, but you are also missing the point. Quite a few people who could benefit from a formal Master's program in CS which is also from a competitive University, may not have the time due to career and family to attend classes full time. But this way they can still get their education

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign had an online Master's in CS as far back as 2001, I believe you had to drive down to campus for tests, though

Well, because presumably SQL databases have features you don't get with noqsl solutions.

Perhaps, but can't you just organize your objects by having a table for each type and adding a column as needed? it doesn't sound like such a big deal

I don't like to be kept dark and dry on this one

Why do you assume that those intelligent people would not engage in some other little value add activity that can make them a lot of money. How much value add do most web social startups provide? The main feature of capitalist economy is that it allows people to work on whatever they want and not on something that some higher authority deems to be "useful"