[seanmcdirmid]

That would be hilarious. Most of the value of a developer doesn’t straight out come from the code they wrote, but everything around that (design, maintenance, hardening). Getting free code isn’t actually that helpful without a lot of other stuff around it.

[geodel]

Not that you are wrong, but you are underestimating the dumb assholes who assume they would be cruising right on path only if someone could solve this tiny niggling problem for them.

I had to tell one moron on phone interview that they are looking for free consulting or what because they keep harping a very specific project (Java/xml etc) setting that they were struggling with. It could of course be solved in hour or so by closely looking at product documents instead of endless googling.

[hpcjoe]

I think you misunderstand the definition of hilarious. This is not an attack, but an observation.

When you are the guy who has to meet payroll for your team, and some (insert appropriate NSFW description here) person/company deprives you of pay for the work they are taking advantage of to further their goals ... think how that makes you feel.

There are many adjectives. None of them are synonymous with hilarious.