Re: Compromised Linux box stories (Re: [SLUG] upgrading complicated installs)

[Jeff Waugh <jdub@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<quote who="Rick Welykochy">

> Adrian Chadd wrote:
>
>> The trouble is that the entry barrier for coding is so low, you can
>> "code" without any "clue".
>
> This very issue gave rise to some heated debate over on the LINK mailing
> list, which some of you attend.
>
> Many of us computer "professionals" were peeved by this low barrier to
> entry into the software industry. Computer software creation is not a
> certified profession like engineering. There are far toomany shiesters out
> there peddling crap software because they can. This gives rise to many
> many problems in IT.

Yet there are so many who go nuts when the idea of accreditation is raised.
:-) [This cheap shot does not indicate my support for or against the idea!]

- Jeff

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