Your real job is made easier by low paid people like him, if not you'd be forced to spend time to (badly) re-implementing the JPEG standard. Just because "it h

Your real job is made easier by low paid people like him, if not you'd be forced to spend time to (badly) re-implementing the JPEG standard. Just because "it helps the CV" doesn't mean that's an end goal in itself in the long run, and once a library is popular the implications (security issues!) of non-maintenance is far higher even if it started out as a "fun" project. This xkcd illustrates it perfectly, https://xkcd.com/2347/ https://xkcd.com/2347/