Free Software school club?

[David J Patrick]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:

>On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 12:01:36PM -0500, David J Patrick wrote:
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>>Can anyone (point to, or) put together a clear comparison / projection 
>>of IT opportunities / incomes MSCE vs RHCE (or other GNU/linux 
>>certification) ? I'm sure such a case is easy to support and has been 
>>presented recently, in the tech press. It would be good to round up the 
>>argument on one punchy page, and then plunk that page in some 
>>influential in-boxes.
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<rant>

>I personally don't have an interest in either of those two
>certifications.  I don't actually much care for any of the
>certifications, having met enough people with those certificates who
>don't have any practical knowledge for actually fixing real problems.
>Not sure how they manage to pass those certifications in those cases.
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>I am sure there are lots of people with certifications that do know what
>they are doing though.  I just seem to have had the bad luck of
>encountering a bunch that didn't.  Maybe it's just that the ones who
>know what they are doing, don't go around making a big deal out of
>having certification.
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</rant>

Alright Lennart, I agree; certification is not proof of competence, 
please feel free to substitute whatever indication of ability you deem 
acceptable. But whatever yardstick you use, the fact that demand for 
linux skill are rising exponentially, should be distilled and 
distributed to CS students and teachers everywhere.
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