People who cannot write a coherent paragraph, or are not familiar with Hamlet or King Lear, or do not know history are equally bad, even if the know how to write code in C++.
The assumption in your post is that all you need to present is evidence to convince others of your point of view shows a very shallow understanding of human condition.
Perhaps some study of humanities would improve your understanding.
Now some Joe Shmoe takes your code and puts it in his car. Then he drives around and has accident and kills someone, because the brakes failed.
Are you now liable for the accident?
Rewriting from scratch is probably the worst thing you can do. See this article by Joel Spolsky,,
I had turned my daughter (who is now 20) into a Trekkie - I got her started with the Voyager series and then together we watched all the available Star Treks. We have had great time doing all this, and now when she visits home from college we still re-watch old episodes of Voyager.
That means that you should be calling your Congress person. Are you? The elected representative is the guy/gal who determines how the money is spent.
It's later than you think, the joint Russian-American space mission has already begun.