Comment by Quarrelsome

When I used to contract I used to work for a firm that would waste their time panicking about this but the reality was that their code was so bad that if it was released and their competitors could read it then that would probably help us because they'd be wasting their time. Much of it was _very_ hard to read, work with and needed serious improvements.

We don't sell the source code, we sell the ability to update, maintain, test and build that code and that's institutional and staff knowledge.