HP Education to offer Linux Courses

jmcmurry writes " This page says that HP Education will start offering Linux courses in June. They'll use RedHat 5.2 in the lab but will cover other distributions as well. Later courses will include "a transition course for Windows NT administrators." "

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Talk matter-of-factly of "transition from NT"

[cthompso]

As noted above, one sentence from HP's announcement is deadly for MS: "..a transition course for Windows NT administrators"
I've worked around PHB's for years. This sort of subtle matter-of-fact statement, repeated over time, drives decisions. Silly but true. We should consciously emphasize that NT is legacy stuff. Use the word "still" whenever NT and Windows comes up. "We're still using a lot of NT" ... "OK, so you guys are still on NT" ... "most places still have a lot of NT, so that Win32 client makes sense"....are you still on Windows?

"Public domain"

[Ray Dassen]

The page says
This 3-day course will cover the practical aspects of installing LINUX and the configuration of network services. LINUX kernel compilation and 'public domain' software installation will also be included.

I'm willing to overlook the incorrect capitalisation of "Linux". But I strongly suspect they're using "public domain" wrongly.

To quote "Categories of Free and Non-Free Software" ( link):
Public domain software is software that is not copyrighted. It is a special case of non-copylefted free software, which means that some copies or modified versions may not be free at all.
Sometimes people use the term ``public domain'' in a loose fashion to mean ``free'' or ``available gratis.'' However, ``public domain'' is a legal term and means, precisely, ``not copyrighted''. For clarity, we recommend using ``public domain'' for that meaning only, and using other terms to convey the other meanings.