[plug] Linux training course ... some elaboration

[Garth Atkinson]

Dear Mark

Knowing a tiny bit about the people who intend to run this course, and a
tiny bit about what they intend to teach through the course, the price
of $100.00 is, as Mike Holland pointed out, a (fantastic) bargain.
Warren Duff made the comment that this course will cost him 2/3 of the
amount of his austudy allowance. I assume he means a weekly or
fortnighly allowance. This makes the course an absolute winner for him,
one that he can afford no problems, and one that he will benefit
tremendously from (sorry - I mean earn slabs of beer). And he gets lunch
too??? What a bargain!!!

Garth
ps I think knowing linux is a mindset, know the basics and you know all
(or soon will), unlike various MS os's where no matter how competent you
are with software/hardware/transistors/etc you can be reduced to a
blubbering mess (read format/re-install). Caveat : Although linux
administration will teach users more about PC hardware than a MS os
will, users should look to other areas for a fuller understanding of
hardware issues/problems.

Mark Bolton wrote:
> 
> Dear Christian,
> 
> The point i was making was that i was appalled that a course was being run where
> students on Austudy were posting enquiries as to the wisdom of  digging very deep into
> very limited funds to attend a course on Linux basics.
> 
> I meant collegial in the fraternal sence and I have no problem with people whose skills
> that command high prices getting some recompence for the time and effort they spent
> gaining those skills as they pass them over to others.
> 
> In fact people donating thier time for no recompence at all , all of the time, will
> enevitably degrade the quality of the project as it become subsumed with amatuerism .
> 
> There is an equal danger however in a Free Software project suddenly having to show pay
> dirt ( the Golden Aeroplane reference) to share holders and carpet baggers.
> 
> I was wrong and do apologise for pitching my little bucket at you , it was unfair and
> ill informed of me , i should have made myself a little better apraised of what was
> actually on offer and your part in the picture .
> 
> What if find quaintly amusing is the zealotry of the linux fraternity and it's
> sniggering at microsoft as being an " in group"  shiboleth , wher i do arc up is when
> this "in groupery" becoming a vehicle for questionable merchandizing at the newbie level
> ...
> 
> If there were forinstance a "slab of beer " fee for unwaged and students I would have no
> problem with the whole concept.  I would suggest however that unwaged and students
> newbies are already quite happy with thier own resources.
> 
> Regards Mark
>