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