This came up a while back, and I feel your pain. That Java job I told you about? All the Java and C++ code now belongs to Quest, who bought my employer. And I d

This came up a while back, and I feel your pain. That Java job I told you about? All the Java and C++ code now belongs to Quest, who bought my employer. And I did some good work on ING Direct (USA), but I can't show that to you, either. My wife once bought a bunch of postcards from a printer to promote her business as a photographer. Right on their price list was a charge for a credit waiver. basically, every postcard had to have a small "Printed by FooCorp 1-800-888-8888" on it. If you didn't want that, you paid extra. I have reached the point where I feel the same way about the code I write. Naturally, nobody can see trade secrets. But if there's a portion of the code that is not a trade secret, perhaps a Rails or jQuery plugin that gets developed along the way, I want that open sourced. If the answer is "No, we want to own everything 100%," I need to make extra money to make up for the fact that I am going to go dark, just as that printer needs to charge extra money to make up for the lost advertising opportunity.