OT? Are they really teaching this?

[parabellum7 at yahoo.com]

Yesterday, I met an individual going to ITT. We discussed our respective areas of study and goals. Personally, I have a strong interest in Open Source and Wireless. I'm also doing a CompTIA Network+ prep course through the Maricopa County Library. It's free if you have a library card and a wealth of info regardless if you're going to get that cert or not. He claims his instructors say any of the CompTIA certs are worthless. He also says he actually 'hates open source' and his instructors are telling him it's a 'dead-ender'. That pretty much left me speechless.


I know I'm preaching to the choir on this part, but much of the web and cloud runs on 'nix and it seems to be the preferred services offered. I've read multiple articles that many big outfits are migrating to Open Source. Major manufacturers are selling machines with 'nix as an option and guess what Google uses in their data centers? Even consumer grade routers say 'Open Source Ready' on the box and the fine print says they're compatible with DD-WRT. Oh, and then there's that whole Android thing.


Are they really teaching those attitudes? Or maybe this individual is confused. Is it even possible to get into the big-leagues of networking without needing to know Open Source OS & apps?



-K