On Fri, 2003-05-23 at 10:40, Derek Neighbors wrote:
[snip]It depends on who does the licensing.  For example MCSE, CCNA,
RHCE are
> all bad in my book because they are promoted directly by a company that is
> licensing only to get people with certs so that they can sell more
> products.
> 
> A+ certification which is far more neutral or SAIR certification are much
> less biased.  The problem I see today with licensing efforts is that they
> are corporate driven.

Actually had you said A+ or LPI (Linux Professional Institute) you would
have been more correct, however the SAIR cert only exists to sell their
training programs, it is not a neutral cert by any means though they
push it that way for sure.

> This leaves it up to non-profits or the government to make a neutral
> license.  Non-profits have to have money, likely their money would come
> from the 'vendors', so while it would say 'neutral' in reality it would be
> far from it (though better than direct product certification).
> 

LPI is non profit, it gets it cash from donations from vendors (though
many of the vendors are hardware folks) and from the test process. Also
most of the work has been done by volunteers though not all of it by any
means. LPI was built by the Linux community for the Linux community and
makes strong attempts to stay vendor neutral and focused on quality.

Cheers,

Davidm
-- 
David IS Mandala
gpg fingerprint 8932 E7EF CCF5 1B8C 1B5C A92E C678 795E 45B2 D952
Phoenix, AZ (480) 460-7545 HP, (602) 741-1363 CP
http://www.them.com/~davidm/