I guess I started thinking what would I do differently if I knew people would edit my code after I join the "cube farm invisible". I work on engineering code where some of the authors are dead.
I guess my thinking is this: Computers and programming are relatively new. We'ew just getting to the point where first batch of hackers are coughing up blood. Are we headed for a change in our practices because of the same type of self-conciousness that musicians got earlier? This conciousness of posterity?