The thru-hole legs of both sockets are interfering with the shroud of the other on that board as pictured, so there appears to be no room to get at the soldertails to make the connections.
It's an optical illusion, there is room for both sockets. The only tricky thing is the straight-through connector on top needs to be soldered so the tails are about flush on the underside of the board.
IMHO it's overly complex, unless you're dead set upon keeping your PDS card stock.
Not really, I just wasn't successful at removing the connector in the past. The conector on the Asante board is close to components, so it seems like they would be in the way to hack at it like that.
