[awesomegoat_com]

I have seen this so many times. You almost made me weep.

It's tragedy of commons. To stop this we need software engineers to own their own code legally.

[sam_lowry_]

Like journalists who retain the copyright on their articles.

This is also a reason lots of decent open source code comes out of the media industry. As much as we despise the media for its effect on society, journalists are much better than software developers in enforcing their worldview on others.