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It's not necessarily your code just because you wrote it.
by run4yourlives 17y ago
It's not necessarily your code just because you wrote it.
- jerf 17y agoDo you think somebody claimed that, or is that just a sort of stream-of-consciousness comment?
- run4yourlives 17y agoThe article insinuates it pretty clearly, so yes, somebody claimed it.
- sophacles 17y agoTrue. However I do not have copies of code I wrote in the past, but I can probably bang out all the interesting parts in a matter of a few days, from memory. It's not that I am that super of a coder or anything, it's that the interesting parts took a lot of thinking, therefore remembering. I think that's why it was 'steal' instead of steal.
- run4yourlives 17y agoExcept that as a coder, and given current laws, if you come close enough to reproducing a trade secret or other copyrighted work, you technically are stealing it.
- sophacles 17y agoRight. I think the point is that someone wants me to work for them based on what I did for a competitor. This whole code stealing thing is silly when its really my ability to help them steal the ideas that matters. They already have the knowledge by getting me, code is pretty irrelevant. Of course the technical stealing is easier to prove with the code...