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Date:      Tue, 22 Dec 1998 23:12:45 -0700
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com>, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG, David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
Subject:   Certification (Was: This just in: Microsoft/Sears Merger)
Message-ID:  <4.1.19981222231027.04013c40@mail.lariat.org>
In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981223005658.00b44ee0@genesis.ispace.com>
References:  <XFMail.981223065928.asmodai@wxs.nl> <4.1.19981222232943.00c1f800@genesis.ispace.com>

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At 01:04 AM 12/23/98 -0500, Drew Baxter wrote:
 
>I didn't say I agree with the MCSE programs and the CNE/CNA Novell
>programs.  I could have gone for my MCSE a while ago, I just don't see the
>point in paying a few grand (I think something to the tune of 5 grand) to
>take certification on something that isn't going to directly affect where I
>am.

It doesn't. "Certification" is intended by software vendors to serve one
purpose and one purpose only: to achieve technological lock-in. The fact
that someone might learn something generally useful in the process is 
actually secondary.

--Brett



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