"You are aware or rsync and power of bash, right?"
I certainly am. Part of the code base included a nice wrapper around rsync, monitoring, statuses and etc.
"Of course you will be ridiculed. You managed to rage-out for no reason at all. While you could think yourself and file-sync messiah,..."
I don't think I'm the file-synce messiah. I leave that to the almighty FSM...
"...you should look up success rates of OS projects."
I'm well aware of the "success rates" but it doesn't hurt to try.
"Well, to put it simply you are not very smart."
I beg to differ. I know my worth in the market place and know there are many other opportunities out there with managers who actually "get it." Why have a false sense of loyalty to a company who won't work with you even after many lengthy discussions. Money isn't everything to me and I'm sure it's not to many others.
"Obviously in your contract it states that every code (or anything for that matter) that you created in the company was IP for the company but nothing prevented you from taking the idea to a next level say have the process well defined and work with the community to develop it."
There actually wasn't anything in my contract that said such a thing about "code." I also didn't have a contract. By law if I did that would expose the company to many many other issues. Most US companies are "at-will" and don't give their employees contracts because it makes hiring and more importantly, firing, much more difficult in the US court system.
"I beleve we must stand for what we believe when what's being asked from us goes against it or to harm it but as far as I can tell you just acted like a snotty kid who had his precious toy taken away."
I'm glad we agree about standing up for what we believe in but I didn't have my "toy" taken from me. I simply asked to publish the code and setup a way to discuss the project/process and code base with the greater community. They thought they could throw money at me; now who's childish?
"Congratulations on losing a job based on that."
Ahem, I didn't lose the job. I quit. There is a huge difference.
"I am, therefore I am." -- Akira