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Originally Posted by Barefootsies
I suppose when you (i.e. programmers in general) "borrow" that base code for a new project from other open source site(s) available around the web,... that belongs to you as well then.
While there are some programmers who've developed their OWN stuff from scratch (i.e. every bit written by them). Many others simply pull from other open source available programs, make some minor changes, and call it their "own".
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You are looking at this wrong, you make it sound like when programmer "borrows" code from elsewhere he is doing something shady, when in reality he probably actually follows good engineering practices by reusing good tested code... only an idiot "reinvents the wheel"...
when you hire a programmer to get something done, you don't hire them to sit like an idiot in front of a computer for 80 hours to write some fresh code for you, you really hire them to come up with a solution to some problem, how the solution is achieved is irrelevant...
*unless you reach some other agreement with a programmer