Justin Frankel, the founder of Nullsoft and author of Gnutella, WinAmp and WASTE, has posted a blog entry in which he eloquently describes his feeling that coding is a form of expression, and his inability to reconcile AOL (his employer)'s total control over his coding. He says he's quitting AOL.
For me, coding is a form of self-expression.
It's probably the form I'm most effective at.
Everything I own is arguably owned by the company.
The company controls what I do with my code…
The company controls the most effective means of self-expression I have.
(via Hack the Planet)
