Comment by DougN7

So if a developer owns the code he wrote, and gets paid for it’s use over time, does he also get paid while writing the code? And how do you determine how much to pay for said code? By line count, but then that goes against some chunk of income/profit which also has to be spread among marketing people’s writings, and manager’s decision outcomes, etc? I just don’t see how this works realistically, but I’m open to being enlightened.