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Re: Novice sysadmins


From: Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com>
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 09:35:42 -0800

On 12/06/2017 09:27 AM, Seth Mattinen wrote:
On 12/6/17 09:16, Nate Metheny wrote:
I've always been more than willing to share knowledge and skill training
with those who show interest and talent; the more qualified and interested people involved, the better, in my opinion. Making the club "exclusive" by
requiring thousands of dollars of training and testing is just another
method of control and elitism.


Is it elitism that professional engineers (structural, mechanical, civil, etc.) be educated with required experience as a junior engineer before they can take the PE exam?


The internet has done pretty well without a guild thus far. The onus for regulation should be on the wannabe-guild builders.

Mike


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