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Reinventing the wheel and the Not-Invented-Here Syndrome have been widely documented in the software industry. Some companies write literally everything from scratch; defect tracking software, time reporting software, wiki software, you name it they write it! Others want complete control over all their application libraries so if a framework isn't approved, instead, they'll just write their own. I caught up with a developer earlier this year who was telling me some of the stories he'd heard over the last couple of years. This article is dedicated to one of the stories he told me.