while I appreciate the originality of your response, I'm not particularly interested on following on this offer anymore for several reasons:
1) I don't like people forcing me to subscribe and check their profile on some third party site, no matter how prevalent it is. It's for the same reason why we don't force Facebook logins to all our visitors' throats and offer them the ability to create a new account with us instead.
2) I asked for one thing and you offered me another, plus your idea why it's not a good thing to ask for. While I appreciate your idea and counter-arguments, I also want people that work for me to do what the duck I've told them to do in the end. If you had included the LinkedIn link ALONG with a CV it would have been much better appreciated.
3) "If you need a document with my experience and education, feel free to use LinkedIn to export my profile to a PDF". Really? And if I asked you to setup a fault-tolerant PostgreSQL based datastore you would have told me to "feel free to open an AWS account, start several instances, install PostgreSQL on them and configure it"? We SURE started on the wrong foot here.
4) "A public github/codeplex/bitbucket (or any other kind of social coding platform) profile where one can look at an applicant's real work. We're talking real code on real projects."
I would n't go as far as to call your half-finished NodeJS/MongoDB tinkering and yet another mustache clone "real work on real projects".
5) "This rationale may only apply to Developers, Programmers and Software Engineers. But it is after all the field I'm interested in."
Sure, be I also hire for other 5,000 open positions in this company that are not "developers, programmers or software engineers" and I want a bloody CV document to put in my document management system alongside theirs.