Originally Posted by Loch

Cleerly you have never worked for a serious company that paid well....sad

And you would think the programmer would bring up these issues beforehand....if its not brought up and he is doing (a cheap job to reuse the idea later), well that is just outright dishonest and probably why they are scrambling for work.

Edit: Just to be clear here, the programmer can re use anything he creates....even if he works for microsoft in their office....UNLESS a contract says otherwise.

Its the way its done from too many smalltime programmers in this business relying on the fact that most webmasters are unaware of this fact!