Ousmane Sanogo wrote: > But why they do not work together to provide something better for the > community?
That is a very good question. The obvious answer is that it may make more sense for them to set up something that they can control completely, instead of getting LPI to play along with whatever it is they want to do. From LPI's POV, this is unfortunate because if there is one organisation that can outdo LPI leveraging the »we're all about FLOSS and not one of those nasty commercial companies that are only after your money« meme that LPI has been riding on for the last 15 years or so, it is the Linux Foundation – after all, they're the ones who sign Linus Torvalds's paycheck, so they must really be the Good Guys™. Right now it is way too early to see how the Linux Foundation's certification scheme is going to work out. On the one hand, there's the convenience of taking exams from your home and the warm fuzzy feeling people get from having to do practical things for their exam, rather than fill in multiple-choice questionnaires. On the other hand, the LF's exams are only accessible to people with a reasonable Internet connection, and whether the virtual-machine infrastructure they're using actually holds up under pressure is something that only time will tell (I understand that candidates' experiences with the Novell Linux certifications, which seem to operate along similar lines, have generally been fairly dismal). LPI has done a lot of work in recent years assimilating the other non-vendor Linux certifications (like CompTIA Linux+). Having an entirely new certification pop up on what amounts to LPI's turf can only be considered a setback for those efforts, especially if it seems to have fairly wide backing from the industry. It would be good to have an official statement from LPI detailing their position on the Linux Foundation's certification scheme and what it will do to corporate sponsorship of LPI (which AFAIK comes from many of the same sources that are now apparently waxing lyrical about the new certification) but I'm not holding my breath. Anselm (Disclaimer: This is my own opinion and not that of my employer.) -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- & Netz-Schulungen [email protected], +49(0)6151-9067-103, Fax -299, www.linupfront.de Linup Front GmbH, Postfach 100121, 64201 Darmstadt, Germany Sitz: Weiterstadt (AG Darmstadt, HRB7705), Geschäftsführer: Oliver Michel _______________________________________________ lpi-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-discuss
