Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > -When your child are ill you require the person caring for them had a
> > certification called doctorate in medicine.
>
> This works because there is a very stringent licensing program
> enforced by law, and practitioners are held legally liable.
>
Be legally liable would not be mandatory: an engineer course who
would graduate people not able to integrate (x**2)dx would quickly
lose all credibility. But software has ever played by different
rules.
> Current computer certs are often not very stringent, are not enforced
> by law, and holders of certs are rarely liable for anything. Current
> certs show that you can pass the test, not that you are competent.
>
This was my point: certification is not intrinsically bad. The
problem is that some manufacturers have made a mockery of it. In fact
we need a certification for certifiers. :-)
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Jean Francois Martinez
Project Independence: Linux for the Masses
http://www.independence.seul.org
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