Having worked on legacy corporate code...I find it is often easier to just observe products and reverse engineer them, rather than try to understand/extend exis

Having worked on legacy corporate code...I find it is often easier to just observe products and reverse engineer them, rather than try to understand/extend existing code. I would generally prefer to reverse engineer+rebuild. Existing code isn't always great code, it may not even be correct code. And if your code really is that good and so unique that someone might want to steal it, perhaps you should try to extract it and product-ify it. Possibly as an open source project.