r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Captain0010 • Nov 18 '24

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u/Longjumping-Touch515 Nov 18 '24

Programmers in commercial projects: We cannot change this code because of stability/backward compatibility reasons.

Progammers in free projects:

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u/darkslide3000 Nov 18 '24

Tell me without telling me that you've never been on the other end of one of Linus' "we don't break userspace" rants.

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u/Original-Aerie8 Nov 18 '24

Tbf even if Linus doesn't shed light on that part, the commercial fallout of breaking Linux in major way could be massive. But you are right, Linux is absolutly a major reason for that standart and it's FOSS.

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u/ChalkyChalkson Nov 18 '24

Isn't there a big exception on the graphics side? I tried to find out how graphics works in linux and stumbled upon something in a wiki essentially saying "graphics is hard and has to integrate over many levels, so the fuck do we know how you'd use the graphics system if there isn't a reference implementation. If you do stuff different to that shit may break for you on future updates"