Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] marketing hype
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Jun 11 2004 - 16:39:56 EEST
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
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