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I came here to make your point about code not being valuable. Everyone can decompose features, your companies edge is you have those features in production. Ev

I came here to make your point about code not being valuable. Everyone can decompose features, your companies edge is you have those features in production. Even without a leak someone could beat you on features and price and you realize the same risk. Leaking pre-production IP is probably a bigger issue, and there's a bunch of laws around that.

pmiller2 6y ago
Exactly. I could easily download almost all of my company's code and send it wherever. But, nobody is going to be able to make any use of it, because they don't know how all of the various pieces (services) go together necessarily, and you'd probably still need a bare minimum of 50 engineers to run it (although that's just a guess). And, even if you did all of that, and replaced the very few things I'm not allowed to access with your own stuff, you still don't have my company's data, which is way, way, more valuable than the code. The moral here, I guess is that "code is not a company." Even if I handed you the code, you couldn't replicate the company I work for in any reasonable amount of time.