Code Copying Survey for Developers

Struan Robertson writes "With all the controversy surrounding SCO's allegations that its Unix code was copied into Linux, we're running a survey with ZD Net to gauge industry practice on code copying. Do you keep a code library? Do you take it from one employer to another? These are the questions we're asking. All answers will be anonymous. The results - with expert legal analysis - will be published free - we're not doing this to sell reports etc. If you're a developer and happy to help, see our questions on SurveyMonkey.com."

Comments

I'm amazed

[lkaos]

I can believe people are answering yes here. If I ever saw in a code review or evaluation what looked like code that can from a personal code library I'd freak and ask management to let the person go.

This is serious stuff. Copying code without permission is stealing. Period.

Re:I'm amazed

[spectecjr]

If I ever saw in a code review or evaluation what looked like code that can from a personal code library I'd freak and ask management to let the person go.

This is serious stuff. Copying code without permission is stealing. Period.


If I'm re-using code from my personal code library, how:

1) Can I be copying it without permission? I gave myself permission when I copied it.

2) Can I be stealing? After all, I'd be stealing from myself.

Some of us do work on our own not-work-related projects after work, you know. And those of us who do so often find that the people at work appreciate it when something we were playing with "just because" turns out to be useful later, shaving weeks off the development time because we can take that code right out of the library we developed for ourselves.

All I really want now is a better way of storing code in my own personal library. But I've not figured out the best way to do that yet.

Conspiracy mode on

[Anonymous Coward]

Fuck the Masons.