Just to avoid confusion - Max was with us entirely voluntarily and with his parents' blessing. Our purpose was to help him to learn and to realise his ambition

Just to avoid confusion - Max was with us entirely voluntarily and with his parents' blessing. Our purpose was to help him to learn and to realise his ambition to be a coder. As it happens, he's extremely bright and already knows emacs, git, and some python - so he was actually able to make a real contribution and get a feature live for customers, which was icing on the cake for all of us.