The Register: Open source a needed outlet for programming pros

Open source hackers are very likely to be programmers with a decade of professional experience employed by a commercial software company, and very unlikely to be the stock high school math-club geeks of popular press reports, a survey of SourceForge members conducted by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) indicates.

PS it looks unlikely that I will manage to attend the Departmental Seminar | Robert Chassell | Free Software: Access and Empowerment today (Thursday). Keeping my fingers crossed that my schedule allows me to work it in but I'm not confident.