The mindset behind that attitude, however, is pretty much the same.

And what would that be?

Disrespect for people perceived as inferior because of limited knowledge in one field. Those elitists totally ignore that the newbie asking stupid questions about a Linux app could be the heart surgeon who one day saves their mommy's life.

what a stupid misunderstanding and interpolation of it! Very few software is so accessible than suckless to anyone who wishes to use and fully understand it. Reading a source of 2000 lines is a comprehensible size indeed and there's no barrier. Quite the contrary: helpful manpages, web-browsable file trees and comments in the sources, mailinglist archives, tons of reviews in blogs and youtube, irc.