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Linux Foundation’s certification sets new benchmark for admins

It sounds interesting, but I had questions about the relevance of certification to an open source community. Other certification schemes are part of a wider marketing program for commercial products, both locking those certified into a vendor and out of competing products. Open source projects are not products and (unless they have been rigged by a vendor) defeat lock-in and sustain supplier choice. How does certification fit in?

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