From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 14 12:39:17 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5253737B401; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 12:39:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zeus.acuson.com (ac17860.acuson.com [157.226.71.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5017A43F3F; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 12:39:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DavidJohnson@Siemens.com) Received: from mvaexch02 ([157.226.230.209]:4874 helo=mvaexch02.acuson.com) by zeus.acuson.com with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 19nNwG-0001kA-5A; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 12:39:12 -0700 Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 12:38:19 -0700 Received: from dhcp-46-151.acuson.com ([157.226.46.151]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id Q8CLFXTQ; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 12:37:34 -0700 From: Johnson David To: Robert Watson Organization: Siemens Medical Systems Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 12:38:25 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200308141238.26165.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *19nNwG-0001kA-5A*//mXirkYVq2* X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No; SAEximRunCond expanded to false cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Certification (was RE: realpath(3) et al) - jumping to -advocacy X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 19:39:17 -0000 On Thursday 14 August 2003 12:24 pm, Robert Watson wrote: > I agree with these conclusions entirely. RedHat plays a valuable > role in the Linux world in a variety of ways, and one of the most > important is to provide the kind of support and legitimacy presence > that many large companies are looking for. I concur. I didn't find the suggestion silly at all. Rather it was quite sensible. What is silly is the idea that ultraspecific certifications mean anything. "Im sorry sir, we looking for a Certified AIX Administrator, but your resume shows that you only know about HPUX, IRIX, Solaris and FreeBSD." > So, if you know of a small company that wants to get bigger, and > wants to give a spin at promoting FreeBSD in this manner (and making > money off it in a sustainable way), I would encourage you to > encourage them. I'm sure there are a fair number of FreeBSD > developers who would like to work for such a company, if they thought > it was viable. I'll gladly jump ship to join such a company. Clue me if if anything shows up on the radar. David