[ubuntu-uk] LPIC vs CompTIA Linux+

[James Thomas]

Hi there,

I have an LPIC 1 certification which I can say has been a help in job
searches and also applications to emigrate.

Also in having the LPIC 1 I was awarded 2 further awards from Novell, as
they deemed it that the course covered the knowledge needed for those
exams...



On 23 April 2010 11:51, Andy Smith <andy at strugglers.net> wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 03:03:24PM +0100, David wrote:
> > What does everybody think about these certifications?
> >
>
> In late 2008, LPI-UK sent me what I considered at the time to be several
> pieces of uninteresting unsolicited email. After asking how they got
> my address it turned out that I had once expressed an interest in an
> LPI exam at a FOSDEM event and LPI shared my email address with all
> of their affiliates, which is allowed in the "small print" of their
> privacy policy (so not technically unsolicited).
>
> I attempted to unsubscribe from the marketing mail (which itself
> contained no unsubscribe link) but got an error from the LPI mailman
> instance. In all it took 7 weeks and several back and forth emails
> with Bill Quinn for me to be removed from this marketing list,
> during which time I received several more marketing emails, some of
> which were duplicates of the other. Some excuses given for the
> inability to unsubscribe me included:
>
> "Due to Canadian Data Protection Law, I / LPI-UK can not view or
> alter the names on the mailing list. I can only make a formal
> request to LPI to remove you from the list."
>
> I was not the only person to experience this; see thread starting at:
>
> http://lists.gllug.org.uk/pipermail/gllug/2008-October/074599.html
>
> I received no apology for this at the time, and only later when
> someone brought up the incident again on a mailing list and I
> chipped in with my account of my experience did Bill apologise to me
> on behalf of LPI-UK. Unfortunately in that same email he called me a
> liar over my claim of receiving duplicates of the same marketing.
>
> My mail box disagreed with him:
>
> Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 17:19:01 -0500
> From: Scott Lamberton <slamberton at lpi.org>
> Subject: Upcoming LPI Webcasts: December 17th
>
> Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:22:03 +0000
> From: Bill Quinn <bill.quinn at lpi-uk.org>
> Subject: [lpi-alumni-uk] Free LPI Webcasts
>
> As a result of this I personally will never have dealings with
> LPI-UK or Linux-IT. I have not experienced anything bad from any
> other LPI affiliate but since taking an LPI exam requires giving LPI
> your email, and LPI's privacy policy says they will share your
> details with their affiliates, I can't recommend that either. I hope
> that Linux-IT's understanding of customer service and the UK Data
> Protection Act has improved in the last ~16 months.
>
> As it happens I do hold several Linux and IT-related certifications,
> all of which are associated with more "enterprisey" corporations
> than LPI, and none of them aggressively market to me in this manner.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
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