[nycbug-talk] the case for a BSD Certification

[Tillman Hodgson]

On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 09:46:19AM -0500, G. Rosamond wrote:
> This Register.com article leads me to some interesting conclusions:
> 
> http://www.theregister.com/2004/12/06/linux_economic_realities/
> 
> There have been a number of Linux-related certs, most importantly the 
> RedHat one.

The LPI one is an interesting one because of it's claim to be
vender-neutral.

Disclaimer: I'm LPI certified and participated in their beta process.

> But we're fortunate that a single BSD cert is more easily created, as 
> we don't have huge multinationals backing one project versus another.  

That's true. Hmmm. I hadn't looked at it that way before.

> I am thinking about starting up a mailman list for the topic.  Dru, 
> Ike, myself and many others have been involved in discussions on this 
> matter haphazardly. . . it may be time to jump start the project in 
> January.

I'm interested in getting involved.


-T


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