> iD Software
You mention id, but don't metion Carmack's Reverse and the resultant patent suit?
> some newbie with "a great idea", and he would want 50% of all the money for it. It doesn't work that way.
That's because his work is owned by the company under contract, like how Disney owns everything it's creatives do on (and off) Walt's clock.
No one here has signed a contract with >>1