Removing Female's Code = Harrasment

http://benjyw.com/post/79990178086/git-github-and-the-ethics-of-engineering

People seem to be focusing on some of the more prurient allegations - office hula-hooping and so on - but are largely ignoring what to me might be the worst offense: another engineer “passive-aggressively ripping out [her] code from projects [they] had worked on together without so much as a ping or a comment.”

I.e. if a woman writes inefficient, unmaintainable and buggy code, refactoring it would be serious incident of harassment and inappropriate behavior.

But wholesale deletion of large chunks of code in a live project should never be done without first consulting the original author whenever possible. This would be offensive at any company, but at one founded on the very ethos of engineering collaboration, it’s more than a slap in the face. It’s a declaration of war.

What sort of logic is this? The code is supposed to belong to the team as a whole, not to the individual programmers. Any code that was taken out is supposed to be subject to the approval of the whole team, not the individual that happened to be assigned that specific task.