[jrjarrett]

I read this article and I have to disagree with one of the major premises that "no one wants to own legacy code" -- it's more that in a lot of organizations, you're not ALLOWED to own legacy code.

What I mean is that you may want to take "ownership" in the sense of learning it and improving it but because it's not new development, large barriers to paying down technical debt and updating to newer development methodologies is disallowed.

So it stays, untouched, bit-rotted, and inflexible.