I can't agree. Would you say the same for someone who was a pure designer? I doubt it. Would it suddenly become true if they picked up a little bit of admin-by-GUI on the side? Again, doubt it. But then how much technical skill can you have before the command-line-or-they-suck clause kicks in? It may have been true for the particular guy your previous boss hired, but it's unsupportable as a generalization.