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Originally Posted by woj
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"...
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No, you would have misunderstood my reply. That actually was not my point.
WC was claiming 'ownership' of the code. If you take code from somewhere else, make a few changes, and call it yours. It really isn't. That was the point.
If you write something from scratch, yes, you "own it". If you are "borrowing" from other places like open source, tested code, (hence the reference to genealogy of the code in previous reference) than it's something else.