[linux-audio-dev] [OT] marketing hype

[Steve Harris]

On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 07:15:24AM -0500, Jan Depner wrote:
> 	Also, being one of those bedroom hackers, I just want to point out that
> I've been a professional programmer for 26 years.  I've done mostly
> scientific graphical editing and data structures programming, but also
> real-time data acquisition.  I've worked on just about every OS known to
> man (including the dreaded OS360).  Why is there always this assumption
> that the only people who work on open source projects are kids in
> college and weekend warriors?

The average age of linux audio hackers does seem to be unusually high. No
idea why. Maybe you get to a certain age before the insanity kicks in ;)

- Steve, beginner with only 17 years programming experience