[RogerL]

But why do we care? In your specific example (which I do recognize as being proffered as an analogy not an equality), I'd rather the food went to a hungry person than picked at then dumped in the trash. Of course it can't work that way because after all they need to taste your food to evaluate it.

All I'm saying is I wouldn't care if my work ended up in their code base vs an open source code base, and I'd prefer it to just being wiped from the hard drive after I was done. In return I'd get something very valuable - insight into the working conditions, what it is like to work with the senior dev, what the code base looks like, what the build and QA system is like, and so on.