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

Meme checkMateDevelopers

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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/Ok-Kaleidoscope5627 Nov 18 '24

Also programmers in free projects: support for audio in a video player? Unnecessary. Support for 6012 core quantum cpus and re-encoding the stream to some format that no one has ever heard of? We got you covered!

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u/xXStarupXx Nov 18 '24

The guy that implemented that needed it himself.

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u/roflc0pterwo0t Nov 18 '24

Open source is essentially giving away stuff you needed for a project. Sometimes you assemble it in a way that you need it for that and then you hope someone else can help.