It's hard to distinguish this comment from a troll response. But just to deal with the factual claim: > When you submit a PR to a business’s intellectual prope

It's hard to distinguish this comment from a troll response. But just to deal with the factual claim: > When you submit a PR to a business’s intellectual property, it’s still theirs. Nope, contributions do not "belong" to the receiving project unless explicitly agreed so. They were created under a license, and are (usually) reciprocally licensed to the project. The owner is and always was the contributor. To call someone a beggar for asking for their code back is beyond belief.