At some level, I think that anyone who hasn't borrowed code (or layout, if you're a front-ender) can be fairly classified as an idiot. No, I don't approve of si

At some level, I think that anyone who hasn't borrowed code (or layout, if you're a front-ender) can be fairly classified as an idiot. No, I don't approve of site-lifting or mindless copy-and-paste "development", but if you've never paid the sincerest flattery to a problem elegantly solved you're either pathologically incurious or pathologically obstinate. On the other hand, passing off visual design without modification (other than, say, the logo) as your own work is rather less than honest. Using someone else's code without understanding it (and without being able to judge its merit as written -- and assuming it's not a part of a "you are not expected to understand this" library) is equally reprehensible, not so much from an IP point of view, but because you are making yourself out to be something you're not.