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____/ Mark Kent on Thursday 25 Feb 2010 08:50 : \____
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> wispygalaxy <wispygalaxy@xxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> Demand for (and pay for) GNU/Linux skills is said to be up, whereas
>>> Windows is down sharply according to surveys. IEEE is sidling with the
>>> losing side here.
>>
>> I thought the IEEE was filled with geniuses. :P
>>
>> On a more serious note, I truly think that people with Windows skills can
>> successfully gain Linux skills. What's wrong with being multi-skilled in
>> the tech world? It will look good on a resume. Maybe Linux will teach you
>> something about computers that Windows did not teach you.
>
> The terms are not really very clear. "Windows skills" might be someone
> who has been trained in how to set up and admin a windows NT machine, or
> it might be a windows kernel programmer.
Windows developer=Microsoft employee.
Remember that for all sorts of reasons (espionage for one thing), people who code for
Microsoft get access to just a portion of the code, so they never truly develop
Windows at all; they might develop something like a network stack, but that's all
they are allowed to interact with.
Compare that to Linux, where literally hundreds if not thousands of companies are involved
in development and each user has access to the code.
"Windows skills" vary from box booting to application installations, reinstalling of Windows,
finding 'wares' on the Web, and hacking on the registry when some malware intrudes.
"Windows skills" are simply servitude to a secretive cathedral, it's not about
participation.
> There are a vanishingly small number of people who have "windows kernel"
> skills.
>
> Contrarily, anyone who wishes to can learn about the linux kernel, in
> that the information is available freely. Whether they have the
> aptitude to assimilate that information is, of course, a further
> question, and is where the terms "training" and "education" become
> rather important.
Not just in computing.
A lot of schools' task is to prepare kids for "adulthood" through a process of
normalisation.
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