On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 02:40:30PM +0200, Anselm Lingnau wrote: > I don't know how Microsoft or Red Hat deal with this, but in Germany (one of > LPI's main markets) you can't generally call yourself an »architect« unless > you hold a professional qualification that involves – among other > prerequisites – several years' worth of studying, at college/university > level, > the theory and practice of putting up physical buildings. > > Some colleagues of mine found out about this the hard way when they were > trying to establish a company called »Architects of VoIP« (in English, > notably). Apparently there are professional bodies of genuine, building-type, > architects who will come down on you like a ton of bricks (and maybe a steel > girder or two thrown in for good measure) if you use the »A« word where you > shouldn't.
Of course in english 'to architect' has a meaning and it is very much not reserved just for people designing buildings and other structures. > The »engineer« moniker seems to be less of an issue since the German term is > »Ingenieur«, and that is, in fact, a reserved title (which again you need to > spend considerable time at a university or polytechnical college to obtain). > Since in ICT circles hereabouts the »engineer« seems to occur only in English > and in composite phrases such as »Such-and-such Certified Engineer«, the > genuine Ingenieure don't seem to mind as much as the architects do (where the > Hamming distance is only 1). In Ontario, the Engineers complain plenty about using the word Engineer. -- Len Sorensen _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
