Re: [LUNI] Why did Linux Business Expo fail??????

From: Peter Harkins (ph@malaprop.org)
Date: Wed Mar 28 2001 - 12:34:45 CST

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    >> 6) Is $1900 to much if you also get a crash course on Linux Admin and
    a
    >> chance to take the LPI exam?
    >
    >Last year you could take the LPI exam for free. Each exam costs about
    >$100.00 and there are 2 exams. This is alot less than 1295.
    >Isn't the Free training part of the Free program?

            Yeah, like I got anything out of that last year... I happened to be at
    Comdex last year because my boss had a small booth in the BrassRing jobs
    section. I ran into someone talking about the LPI and was told that I
    could get a cert for taking the test- it wasn't clear whether it'd be
    from taking the beta or a free shot at it when it was done, but either
    way it didn't happen. A few weeks later I got an e-mail (still have it)
    that said, loosely, "Thanks for taking the beta test. Here's your
    incentive: [URL] We hope you take our test 'for real' now that we're
    done writing them." And the "incentive" (their word) was, IIRC, one of a
    few t-shirt designs, a copy of a distro or two, etc. Basically stuff
    that people in booths at Comdex had been forcing upon random passers-by.

            To respond more generally to the LBE stuff - like, I guess, most people
    on this list I'm a geek. If I'm going to spend a day at a
    conference/show instead of curled up with a nice technical manual I
    expect to learn something or hear an interesting speaker. Especially if
    you want for me to pay for it on top of it. Oh, and 'interesting
    speaker' is a pretty loose definition - there's the obvious big names,
    but I'd be up for hearing Neal Stephenson, Steven Levy, etc. talk.

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