For me it was mainly the life-sucking corporate culture that is referred to. I was very interested in mainframes as a young programmer (still quite recently) an

For me it was mainly the life-sucking corporate culture that is referred to. I was very interested in mainframes as a young programmer (still quite recently) and I even did a few projects in school centered around Linux for s/390 and Hercules. When it came time to find a job somewhere away from school I couldn't get close to a mainframe without losing interest because of the (sorry to reuse the same phrase) life-sucking corporate culture I would have to penetrate.