In many cases. Telling others... yes! I can learn how to do that. At 17 a friend of mine asked me some help to port an old (and probably still working) COBOL a

In many cases. Telling others... yes! I can learn how to do that. At 17 a friend of mine asked me some help to port an old (and probably still working) COBOL app. Project wasn't really financed and absolutely not intended to be a production ready solution. At 20 I was still working on that project. At that time in production and at least with the budget for us. Year after year I can tell that my knowledge was totally community driven. Than.. I understood Unix (yes Microsoft was everything for 10 years). And I definitely understood how to code looking at other's code. Btw. Thanks everyone for the open source.