Jon "maddog" Hall reminisces about the first LPI testing in Brazil. "In January of 2002 a FOSS training company in Brazil named "4Linux" decided that Brazil needed a certification for Linux. They naturally looked to LPI to supply that certification. However, the fledgling LPI stated that only LPI representatives could give the tests, and it was not cost effective to fly someone from Canada to Brazil to test 100 or 200 people, particularly when Marcelo Marques, one of the owners of the 4Linux company kept telling LPI that 200 US dollars was "too much money" for the test."

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