 Let's again continuing to answer questions from the questions and comments video and today we're going to look at two viewers questions The first one I think will be hopefully be a simple question is Did you ever? think of Getting a LPI certification and working as a sys admin or something in the field I think you would do quite a good job with some training in specific areas Well, thank you for the compliment and As far as getting certified. No, I doubt I would do that. I and less. I really needed to Would I want to work as a sys admin somewhere and this is something I've thought about a lot and Besides a short period of my life in my early 20s I really never wanted to do computer work for a living at least not for other people so I Love computers and if I did for work, I think I would love them less. I Also feel especially now I am very strong about open source and anything I do to be open source So as far as a sys admin, that's something I could do if I was working Slowly on Linux machines because even though I know how Windows machines work. I wouldn't want to work on one I would be I find it aggravating But sys admin. I think that's something I could do kind of been offered jobs here and there for that But it's not really something I want to do at least not at this point in my life Outside of like sys admin. I really like writing little programs and stuff and I've thought a number of times about Maybe doing software for small businesses Just you know to keep track track of customers and sales You know I work for the fire department and I would love to do a bunch of firefighting software to keep track of training hours, you know shift stuff and that would be something I would definitely be able to do because it would be easy for me to do on my own I could easily write the software open source and still make some good money because basically, you know Let's say you're a small business and you need something to keep track of your customers I could write you software specific to what you're doing so it's designed exactly for what you're doing and it doesn't matter to you whether it's open source or Not and I would make it clear that I am writing the software for you But I still own the software and I would really send you a GPL license Which would protect me and the end user And I could still go into a another company maybe in a similar work field and modify it for them And I would be charging them for my services I do see and I know this isn't a question asked directly here. I do see a Lot of people ask oh, how do people make money with open source and people do it all the time It's it's a very simple concept. It's just hard for people to grasp. Sometimes I get I guess and Basically you look at it like any other job. Let's say you're a carpenter just as a simple example and Someone needs a chair You build them a chair and they pay you for your services and the product. Those are two things Now you don't go well you have to pay me for every person who sits in that seat No, you do the job you get paid for your work your time and the product and Then you move on you want to make more money you go and build another seat another chair Same way with software except for you don't have the product No matter how much people push to try to say software is a product It's not now you put it on a CD and sell the CD, but the software itself is not a product so Once again a company needs software written. I write the software for them Shouldn't matter to them that it's open source. I mean lest they're promoting it They shouldn't there's no negative effect to them that it's open source It just benefits them because it gives them freedom to modify it down the line and They pay me for my time for my service But luckily since it's open source I still am the creator of that software I still have rights to it and I can go use it elsewhere Where if I work for a company that produces software and they're not an open source company I lose rights to my work, you know, it's like I created this and I should be able to use it in the future as well as other people use it So this concept. I don't know why why people think it's all right to sell licenses for software it's like You spend a certain amount of time on software you should get paid for your time just like any other service out there So that is my view on that and so if I was ever to get into some sort of computer work as a business I would definitely work for myself and I mean there'd be a possibility maybe once again sys admin, but I think I would really rather work for myself and Do software for businesses. It's open source Anybody else can be free to come and take that software and use it for their businesses, but in most cases People need someone to set the software up for them And that's where I would come in with my services if somebody else wants to provide the service of setting up that software Go right ahead. It's free and open source. There's plenty of business to go around. There's plenty of businesses for us to Set the software for so there's really the whole concept once again of of if you Make probably the only way you can make money is with proprietary software kind of one is false because you look at all the people who make a living making open source software and Just the basic concept in general It's that's like saying well if you're a carpenter You should be able to make only one chair in your life and just charge people the rest of your life for sitting It's just kind of a silly thought. So anyway, thank you for that question Might have went off on a little bit then outside of the area of your exact question, but I hope that I answered it I thank you for watching and I hope that you have a great day