Bad news about Bilski case. Or may be it was just too many expectations, because, at the end, Supreme Court isn’t as invulnerable to lobbies as we wished.
Money’s talking.
Update: Software patents after Bilski by Peter Brown (FSF).
Juan J. Martínez used to talk here about Open Source and Other Things.
This is a blog in archive mode, you can read new posts at en_GB@blog
June 29, 2010
Supreme Court: "business method" and software patents OK
April 17, 2010
Patent Absurdity: how software patents broke the system
This is a must see, really.
November 29, 2009
Salaries by Popular Certifications
Through this link (Spanish), I’ve found this list of Salaries by Popular Certifications and Salaries by State, and I find it interesting.
After some little OOo processing, I’ve got a list ordered by salary:
| Rank | Certification | Salary | Base |
| 1 | ITIL Foundation Certification | $98.9k | 1,328 |
| 2 | CCNP - Cisco Certified Networking Professional | $96.4k | 386 |
| 3 | RHCE - Red Hat Certified Engineer | $96.2k | 54 |
| 4 | CCSP - Cisco Certified Security Professional | $94.9k | 91 |
| 5 | CCDA - Cisco Certified Design Associate | $94.4k | 229 |
| 6 | CCVP - Cisco Certified Voice Professional | $94.4k | 70 |
| 7 | Cisco IOS Security Specialist | $92.7k | 36 |
| 8 | MCTS: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 - Configuration | $90.9k | 54 |
| 9 | CCNA Voice | $89.1k | 109 |
| 10 | CWNA - Certified Wireless Network Administrator | $88.9k | 75 |
Data from 2009 IT Skills and Salary Report, base it’s the number of survey respondents.
I’ve put in the table just the first 10 certifications, and I want to highlight the third one: RHCE.
Besides the fact that it’s one of the less frequent certifications in the survey, I must say that the salaries in Spain are far lower than in USA (according this table).
I must confess I don’t feel with superpowers after being certified, and neither my career has been boosted (even I have more knowledge and experience after the certification).
Anyway, it’s very nice to see that an open source based certification it’s very appreciated, at least in USA (should I look for a new job out of Spain? heh).
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