How To Measure Linux Proficiency?

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 14:21 -0700, Matt Graham wrote:
> From: alex at crackpot.org
> > Quoting Joshua Zeidner <jjzeidner at gmail.com>:
> >> The Question is... how does an employer measure Linux expertise 
> >> objectively?
> 
> With great difficulty.  (So some of them look for the RHCE label.)
> 
> > earning an advanced degree does show a person has  
> > commitment, and should have a good general understanding of the  
> > subject.  But none of that is a guarantee.  I've met a lot of  
> > knotheads with masters degrees (in many fields).
> 
> Yep.  There are even a number of complete idiots with PhDs out there.
> I've seen them; my father's a professor, so I met a number of ...
> less-than-useful people in the department who all had PhDs.
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I think George W Bush has demonstrated the theory of relativism...he has
an MBA from Harvard. Where does it say that a degree is proof of
anything?

Craig