Android may be based on Linux, but it is not Linux. Android is rarely used as a desktop, or server. As such, Android is irrelevant to the desktop, or server, market.

Once everybody is dependent on systemd, Red Hat will change things.

Yeah, systemd is open, just like OOXML is "open" - again, right out of Microsoft's playbook.

> Republican means you shouldn't trust a word they're saying.

Very true. However, Democrat also means you shouldn't trust a word they're saying. Obama has been caught in more flat-out lies than I can remember.

That a fact? What are your credentials? What is your source?

You need internet. Cable-TV is a grossly overpriced luxury.

With a digital antenna, and services like hulu, and every channel having it's own website: you can watch practically anything with cable-tv.

I have a Roku, and use my PC as a Plex server. I have not missed cable at all.

> If a company wants young people, who am I to force them to take me?

Would you feel the same way about discrimination by race, gender, or religion?

> If you're over 40 then perhaps you should neither expect nor accept to be hired to do what a 20 year old can, and for a much lower pay.

Who says a 40 year is *always* paid more than a 20 year old? Only bigoted, ignorant, prejudice people, it seems to me.

> Besides, younger people will take orders like you probably won't, and have physical resources that you probably don't (think crunch time).

Nice bigoted "reasoning." Not long ago, I worked a 5 month contract job where everybody was over 45 except for one guy who was 26. Guess who was the only one who was *always* late. Guess who was the only one to take sick days - and he took a lot of them. I am not saying that is always the case, but you might want to tone back your prejudice just a little. And where do you get this idea that older people won't take orders that younger people will?

> Know what you are capable of and either find the right job for you (i.e., the thing that only someone with you expertise can do on schedule - on budget - on specs) and/or build your own shop; they might come.

Not as easy as it sounds. There is less, and less, room as you get closer to the top. You may be great at managerial duties, but not everybody can grow into such a position - simple math.

> The majority of people spend their whole life as a single gender, but are never the same age twice

All the more reason that a woman should be so stupid as to get a degree in engineering. The majority of people spend their whole life as the same race, maybe African Americans should not get a degree in engineering? If they do then that is just bad career planning - they should know better than to try to get a career where they are largely excluded because of prejudice, right?

> Also, there is no protection for young people against age discrimination, only old.

Maybe that is because job discrimination against young people is much less common? Still, I agree that nobody should be immediately excluded because of age, either old or young - prejudice is prejudice.

Depends on what you call "senior"

26 y/o with 5 years professional experience is what you want for entry level.

31 y/o with 10 years professional experience is what you want for senior level.

36 y/o with 15 years professional experience is washed up.

Still use most recent systems, and languages, etc.

How about: "if your a woman, you should not plan to have a career as an engineer. If you got your degree, and can't get a job, that's just bad career planning. Should have been a nurse."

Why is it okay to discriminate by age, but not gender?

If it is no big deal to discriminate because of age, then why worry about discrimination based on ethnicity, or gender, or religion?

It really is the same thing isn't it?

Sounds like bullshit to me.

That story may have been true in 1980, I doubt it's true today.

My parents are 78, and they use computers all the time, they have been using computers since 1980. My mother-in-law is 88, she uses her computer every day, although I admit she does have some difficulty.

Although young people practically all *use* computers; many cannot go beyond facebook and selfies - many young people could not tell you what a name server does, or know how to use the ping command.

What if you had trouble with an African American worker? Would you adopt a policy against hiring African Americans? That would come from the same discriminatory mindset.

Image if you tried to do the same with women, or African Americans.

Like computers, medicine, and law, change constantly. Image if accountants, lawyers, and doctors, were considered washed up at 40.

I have worked in IT since 1979.

Where do people get this idea that IT workers work with old technologies? The idea is not true, and makes no sense.

Do older car mechanics only know how to work on older cars? How about older doctors, lawyers, scientists?

Do you think an installation has new technologies for younger workers, and older technologies for older workers?

I work with latest released technologies all the time.