Comment by kogus

This reminds me of something that happened at a former employer. After I had been employed there for a couple of years, someone in HR or Legal noticed that the programmers had never signed any "our code belongs to the company" agreement. So they asked us to sign a paper to that effect, and gave us each a check for $20. My thought was that I always assumed the company owned this code, but if they were going to pay for it, then $20 was waaaay too little. Anyway I took the $20, signed the paper, and got back to work. But it always gave me a chuckle.