Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Could I use BLAG to substitute CentOS for RHCE?

[Thiago Zoroastro]

Yes, you're unemloyed and soon I will be too. We are in a tough situation because they use *Linux* only in servers and security issues. So you don't use what they hope you do.

 

I defend FSF Certifieds like a way to improve efforts of Free Software expanding borders ensuring Free Knowledge and Free Content but formatted to make it right.

 

FSF Security Certified would be like one of them.

 

FSF Officer Certified for offices and etc.

 

FSF Programmer Certified.

Enterprises, business, schools, governments, personal user computers using Free Software could having something to pick and follow. Donations would be very recommended instead of paying equal fees by different monetary values. Ninety nive dollars are very few to a lot of people, but unpayable to most of peoples that they could make money with Free Software to help FSF afterward.

 

---

De: adfeno@openmailbox.org
Enviada: Terça-feira, 21 de Junho de 2016 15:36
Para: libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org
Assunto: [libreplanet-discuss] Could I use BLAG to substitute CentOS for RHCE?

I can't speak for the FSF nor for the GNU project. I think you can do these courses, although this will probably make people believe that you support or are willing to use the non-free systems referenced in the certification, if you do mention to the public that you do have that certificate. In my curriculum and/or resume, I remove all mentions to non-free software in my fields of interest (mostly: organization management, accounting, graphics design, and basic education on computer usage (no certification for this one because I'm not a teacher)). I had taken a course about basic Windows usage (they labeled it as "Basic computer usage"), and about all that non-free software used for graphics design, but all this was when I wasn't a free software activist (I was just studying the movement). Nowadays, I simply refuse to take courses about any non-free software or non-free system distribution. I do feel the need to take at least a basic course (with valid certification) about most software I use or plan to use (like: GnuCash, LibreOffice, Inkscape, GIMP and so on). However, since I'm currently unemployed, and I don't have a monthly income that is reserved to my own use (I do receive monthly incomes but they go to other stuff, like college expenses), I can't afford to pay for the courses even if I would find one (because I haven't found courses about these software, and when I do find, it requires non-free _javascript_ or non-free software in order for me to access the course and materials). So most items in my curriculum and/or resume are all about self-taught free software usage, and most of the items let my skill levels transpose to the reader/evaluator. For example: If I'm self-taught on *basic* GnuCash usage, why would I lie to the reader by briefly saying that I'm just "self-taught on GnuCash usage"? And by this, I hope to, one day, be chosen for what I really like to work with. I really wish there would be a place where individuals could place their free software-related curriculum and/or resume. Actually, I think GNU Savannah *does* have this feature (I'll look for it later).