Robert Ryley wrote: > 1. It continues to encourage the commodification of techincal > personnel. People just become "certs" as opposed to intelligent, > independent individuals with value to bring to an organization. This > is a mindset that *must* be broken for FLOSS to be viable.
I totally disagree. Certification is about competence of members and third parties, in order to allow them to sell their services and make money out of their competence. Without the recognition of competence, free software is not going to build any business for his volunteers. Idealistic concepts like recognition of individual value are not leading anywhere, as history shows. > Do you want to engage in life or death struggle every day, where > either you chop your opponent's head off, or he chops yours? The concept is exactly the opposite. Competence allows to sell services at a fair rate. Look at RedHat: they certify the competence of their third parties, and their third parties build a business on it. > 2. In whose interest is the TDF working for -- the developers of LO > and its extensions, or the corporate enterprise? TDF is working to create an ecosystem around LibreOffice, where members - including developers, but also non developers - are able to monetize their competence because it is recognized. Speaking of an ideal world where an independent organization is certifying competence on behalf of the marketplace is like looking at Alice in Wonderland as a business manual. Free software will never get anywhere with theoretical visions. -- Italo Vignoli - [email protected] mob +39.348.5653829 - VoIP [email protected] skype italovignoli - gtalk [email protected] -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
