Personally, I'm prejudiced against people with college degrees too... the way I see it, if you're spending years in college, you're not a self-motivated go-getter who can learn independantly, you're just another drone who paid a fortune to be spoonfed and can't be trusted to do anything more than go through the motions like he's been taught.
It could also be that a student has taken the time to evaluate the various methods of acquiring knowledge and arrived at the conclusion that university-level training is the student's best choice. There are non-technical skills that are benefits/requirements for an effective IT professional that simply cannot be learned from a manpage, at a bash prompt, or even from the pages of a book. To learn these skills, I think self-teaching is less effective than university or apprenticed training.
What if the licenses are mutually incompatible? It's reasonable to expect that an act within the terms of one license is outside the terms of another.