On 01 Aug 2002 11:25:24 -0400
Matthew Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|Professionals have to behave professionally. If they choose to
|deal with only certain types of licensed materials, that's their
|decision. If they start ridiculing, attacking or doing other
|'unprofessional' things, that's different. Same goes for the
|'liberal licence lovers'.
|Maybe I missed something (I haven't been reading all of this stuff
|- I'm relying on Bill to summarize everything :) but what
|'profession' are we talking about? Professional Linux consultants?
| What is that? Admins? Programmers? Speakers? Lobbyists?
| Evangalist? Project Managers? All of the above?
I guess those who earn their living from Linux. Certainly,
consultants, admins, programmers, PMs. Whether it extends beyond
technical people is another issue. We could have categories of
membership or specialties, as many as needed. Or just an 'Other'
category.
|> What I am doing is questioning the use of the phrase
|> "professional" to itself be associated with being "license
|> liberal".
|
|Exactly. I'm applying for my P.Eng. this year. I have to
|demonstrate a few things: a knowledge of professional ethics, law,
|education, experience and good character. I don't have to tell
|them how I'm going to run my business, what clients or work I'm
|willing to do or my personal philosophies.
And that's a model we should study long and hard, but I think you'll
agree that IEEE tries to embrace all sides of the profession.
bill
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