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Eljay-Adobe • Edited

All of these points are spot-on.

#3 in particular is a good one. Unless you own the company... you do not own the code. The developers are the stewards of the code. They take care of the code, make the code better, enhance the code. But they do not own the code. They are paid by their employer to do those things, and if they get all prickly about their little corner of the code things won't go well for the developer.