This is a good argument (from the hacker-founder point of view) for open-sourcing all the non-`secret sauce' parts of the code from the beginning (i.e. from bef

This is a good argument (from the hacker-founder point of view) for open-sourcing all the non-`secret sauce' parts of the code from the beginning (i.e. from before you have any investors with the power to stop you from doing this).