On: Code Lifespan

[dcow]

Those are 2nd order benefits derived from establishing shared ownership.

[AnimalMuppet → dcow]

That statement is false. If I call your code, I don't have to share ownership of your code to benefit from your code not having a bug in it.

[dcow → AnimalMuppet]

That’s not what I said.

I said you get the second order benefits by establishing shared ownership. Of course the qualities of the code are conferred to callers… that’s obvious.