@Aki before you jump to any conclusions about the short career path of hard core developers... look at what developers in developing countries say about it here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/972611/old-developers-any-future SKYPE: sobbayi US: +1 202 297 6831 +1 202 470 0525 KE: +254 722 627 691 http://blog.sobbayi.com http://sobbayi.blogspot.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "aki" <aki275@googlemail.com> To: "Skunkworks Forum" <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> Sent: Thursday, November 5, 2009 3:58:57 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Will Open source make developing nations dumber and dependent on freeware to run economies? On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Barrack Otieno < otieno.barrack@gmail.com > wrote: Wesley i am keen to get your take on this...is age a factor with regard to entry level in programming?, sorry aki for deviating @Barrack, thnks for the info. I too have been researching some articles on age and programming and came across one that was a eye opener. It highly suggests that programmers and software engineers have a short career life ( unless you are in a developing country where code as old as 40-50 years can still make headlines... ) similar to a professional sports person. The age of 40 seems to be a downhill trend for programmers as they either end up as management ( which they hate but have no choice ) or the lucky ones who end up as lead programmers for a team etc. I'm curios about something too, on Open Source and schools in Kenya. What linux version is being used, or has someone decided that a certain linux version is the way forward? What about PC-BSD, is this also being used as a learning platform? me thots.. :-) Rgds.