Nothing makes you as dependent as an on-line accessible only feature.

No. Your 'smurfhammer' is not part of the construction. It's just a tool used to do said construction. The contract for would be for the construction, not the tools. Construction workers quite frequently bring their own tools to use at the site from hammers to air compressors. What they *cannot* take home (without it being theft) would be the nails and excess wiring purchased for the project.

And no, 'spare time' is relevant. The work this guy is doing is directly tied in with the software being constructed, to use your analogy. Only by doing it in his spare time could it become his.

You're describing an entirely different kind of parent than he did.

Which makes this all subjective. There are already comments by people who say that anything not done in C is ugly, so how to tell that these same people didn't pepper other's code with that statement? Many people think code is an ugly hack merely because it wasn't done the way they would code it.

I've seen code written with procedures named for Alice in Wonderland characters and activities. Yet, I've seen that kind of thing defended here as 'creative'. 'Ugly hack' in a comment is a worthless indicator.

For you to be a synonym to his example, you would have to purchase a new camera every year just to have the latest headsup in the eyepiece.

Muslims are prohibited from drawing Mohammed

Aside from a fatwah issued by a cleric, perhaps you could provide a cite. As I stated elsewhere, Mohammed has been portrayed by Islamic artists for centuries.

The message is murder. Don't let the bullshit about cartoons fool you.

Hell, I've been retired for over eight years and I still get spammed.