You sack them as soon as you have their knowledge? Seems a bit extreme. Or you are simply saying that the person in question is aggressively keeping people of

You sack them as soon as you have their knowledge? Seems a bit extreme. Or you are simply saying that the person in question is aggressively keeping people off of their turf? That must be it :P I have been working at a small startup for the past 6 years. The code is all mine so sometimes it is a bit hard to relate to all of the internal struggles that programmers seem to have.