From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Apr 18 16: 0:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36EA714F2F for ; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 16:00:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA24784; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 15:58:17 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd024768; Sun Apr 18 15:58:13 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA21665; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 15:58:13 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199904182258.PAA21665@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Redhat Certified Engineer To: jgrosch@MooseRiver.com Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:58:12 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, marcus@miami.edu, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19990417165525.A61941@ontario.mooseriver.com> from "Josef Grosch" at Apr 17, 99 04:55:25 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > Minus, of course, their costs such as equipment, teachers, administration, > > > etc. Yes, they made money but not 2.5x10**6 dollars. > > > > The point is, they made a profit, and there is opportunity there, > > if advocating FreeBSD isn't enough to get you interested in doing > > this type of thing, then maybe the money will be. > > > You know me, Terry. You, and any one else who knows me, know this I am > always sniffing around for money. Collecting a check is my favorite thing > to do after advocating FreeBSD. I just wanted to inject a little reality > into this discussion. > > Having FreeBSD certified Engineers is a good idea. It will make the suits > feel better about FreeBSD and allow FreeBSD-Support to weed out the bozos > from the competent. But this is not an easy task. Developing a course of > study, standardized testing, recruiting teachers, etc. is a lot of work. If > you think getting people to write documentation is tough try getting people > to write course work and teach the classes. That was a "royal you", e.g. "all you advocates", not an "accusative you", e.g. "you, Josef, personally, yeah, I'm talking to you". 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message