From: Darby Weaver (ccie.weaver@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Mar 27 2009 - 08:00:55 ART
Hold on buddy -
That's my quote...
It's time for the community to take a step to police itself. There is no
other way that can be effective.
Cisco, Microsoft, and others even with a heavily vested financial interest
in the matter are virtually helpless and have been for over a decade.
The only way this can happen and happen effectively is with the force that
we, collectively, as a top tier of IT Professionals can actually lead the
charge and just say "NO!".
I am only 1 person. I raised the voice, I held up a flag, and I picked up
the sword and many other IT Professionals knew it was right and they lined
up to fight right alongside me.
That battle is now nearly won.
I was attacked personally for my efforts, and my identity (name, picture,
credentials) were "mocked and stolen" and as a result, I struck back there
as well - legally - and as of today that site (certcollection.org) is now
down for the second day of "maintenance".
There are somewhere between 10,000 - 100,000+ registered members of
Groupstudy.com and I'll bet you if even but a few put their names and
reputations on the line in this war to save our profession, then it won't
take long.
We Will Win.
It gets ugly but it is not impossible.
Surely there are more people here than just Pavel and myself.
Others? Collectively we should be the tip of the spear in this fight. I'm
not naive and I know some of this number will be shaking their heads and
saying... "Darby you are crazy, it just can't be undone that easy!" and I
was told very nearly that about Sadikhov.com and not even two months later
Sadikhov.com is seeing a brighter day and is well on its way to being the
"Technical Knowledge-Sharing Forum" it always wanted to be. The Site Admin
and Owner cared enough to risk financial loss to make it so. And now it is
coming to pass.
If there is anyone who does not believe this is a history breaking event on
the Internet - let them speak now. Because it is coming. I'm not saying
piracy and cheating exams will go away 100% - I am saying it will not be the
norm and will not be the rule rather than the exception.
And if you don't stand for this type of movement, what will you stand for.
This is a revolution. A global revolution.
Definition of Revolution: A fundamental change in power or organizational
structure.
Anyone else up to the challenge at hand?
Blogs and organic groups at http://www.ccie.net
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