I have always been interested in computers, and would find myself hanging out with the Computer Science students instead of the Aviation Management or Business Management students I was a part of. At home and at work I have been largely self-teaching myself using computers starting with Excel and Access with VBA through ASP and SQL at work. Thankfully my current employer values education, and so I have been taking classes and not only learning the technology, but un-learning what I have been doing wrong over the years. At home, though, I have been teaching myself Linux, system administration, networking and the overall method of migrating our system from Windows to Linux. I am involved in the Danbury Area Computer Society (DACS.org) I have the opportunity to take what I've learned the hard way and hopefully help others.. I have been enjoying Open Source for a while now, and I am hoping to get a better understanding of the entire model and application.
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Still gotta look out for those forks!
They'll make you split your development time between them all! My wife and I have 3 forks currently, all 10 and under. :)
Gifts from relatives can be equally tiresome too. My brother got me an iPod one year (a shuffle) which thankfully was supported with Banshee at the time.
My parents got my son a digital camera that, yup! you guessed it, doesn't work with Linux and only includes Windows drivers. I even got in touch with somebody who was developing drivers for these cameras and he told me that it was very different than the ones he's ported to Linux.
My ever-loving parents also gave him a 3D chess game that works on Windows only. It worked kind-of in Wine/CrossOver.
I think they are getting the hint, though, finally. We didn't get any questionably-compatible gifts this year.
As for Disney, I figure this is an adult's issue with freedom, for kids they just know what they like, not the more complicated philosophy behind it. There's time, though, to teach them as they get older though ;)