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Originally Posted by GlennD
I make my living administrating computers for an insurance company. If I get let go, no one is going to be paying me for the login script I wrote a couple of years ago. It doesn't matter how long it's used. Certainly no one is going to be paying my kids for that work after I die.
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The difference being that anything you create for your company belongs to the company (it's a standard clause in most contracts).
If they decide that it's a marketable product and start selling it they could well be making money from it for years to come.