>
> <RANT>
>
> Nothing personal toward those who are certified, but personally I hate
> certifications because:
>
> a) They cost money that people (I) have better uses for.
> b) They cost time that people have better uses for (I know I prefer
> to have a life).
> c) They aren't necessarily a guarantee of anything (just like college,
> some people who come out have gained something, some haven't).
> d) They further the division between the have and the have nots.
>
> Since Linux was different in many other ways I was hoping it would in
> this way too. Well, I guess RedHat has to earn money somehow.
>
Well I am not certified and I consider as most computing
certifications have been designed by crooks but:
-When your child are ill you require the person caring for them had a
certification called doctorate in medicine.
-Years ago when Linux was an underground system used for non mission
critical tasks your reasonning waqs valid. Basically an employee
deployed Linux for certain task so he proved he was competent.
Today things are different: first of all there is more at stake
because Linux is running important software like databases, second
there are companies who have to look outdootrs for people able to run
Linux. They don't know if those people are competent so they need a
way to estableh this: cetification
-When you were young I guess your employer asked what certifiaction
you had except that he called it an engineer degree.
So despite the bad to say about certifications in the computer area
they are _needed_. But we have to avoid Linux certifications become
alike those of certain systems born in Redmond whose names I will not
mention. :-)
--
Jean Francois Martinez
Project Independence: Linux for the Masses
http://www.independence.seul.org
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