[BSDCert] To be or not to be ?

[christiaan]

 I would like to see the BSD certification succeed and  I am not trying 
to undermine the the good work that is being done by saying that BSD is 
not the LPI in terms of business.

Evan has been very generous in sharing his experiences, in particular 
the strengths and weaknesses of the LPI and BSD certification business. 
Even though these two organisations operate in a similar space, their 
business plans could not be more obviously different, simply because of 
the commercial demand issue. Given the size of the market of commercial 
BSD vendors and therefore the scale of the relative sponsorship market. 
Why would  a corporate "sponsor" fund BSD certification instead of 
developing their own program?

All I am simply saying  is that there is enough information now for it 
to be clear that BSD certification may well require an alternative 
business model to the LPI?

I volunteered to help out with the market research because it was 
required for the business plan. I understood that it was because there 
was no Business plan yet.  If this is not the case then I stand corrected.

Chris

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