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

[Jan Depner]

On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 08:39, Steve Harris wrote:
> 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 ;)
> 

	My wife agrees.  She says it started right around 40.  Go figure ;-)

Jan