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From: , Pete
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 9:17 AM
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Subject: Congratulations to Chris Gkikas on Red Hat Certified Technician certification

Please join me in congratulating Chris Gkikas on his attaining the Red Hat Certified Technician – Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 certification. Chris is looking pretty spiffy walking around with his red fedora!

BTW, as much as I enjoy basking in the glory or Chris’ achievement, I’d really appreciate it if the congrats were directed to him as opposed to a REPLY ALL (and I suspect many of you would too! :>)

It’s extremely cool to get feedback and praise like this.

So now, this makes me, professional-certification-wise,
Chris Gkikas, RHCT, MCSA, A+, Net+, iNet+, Linux+, CNA. Talk about alphabet soup.

But some of the rejection of Vista is because it locks up customers, once again, into proprietary software that is expensive, Mr. Perens said. Vista is also trying lock up users with digital rights management, which will prevent the software from sharing video and music. “Unfortunately, this is very anti-customer technology,” Mr. Perens said.

Aside from its expensive price point ($200-$400) and out-of-the-box technical defects, there’s the philosophical side to this. Consumer democracy will do to Microsoft, the obviously dominant software behemoth, the same that it’s done to other dynasties in the past. Eventually more people will turn to Mac, Linux, or whatever future alternative is presented to the status-quo.

It’s technolution… the inevitable shift of preference, perspective, possibilities and priorities in the modern realms of computer usage.