My read is, if the goal is a super valuable open source project, developing it and having it stuck in-house sucks. And what can you do? Reimplement it from scra

My read is, if the goal is a super valuable open source project, developing it and having it stuck in-house sucks. And what can you do? Reimplement it from scratch open source? Sounds like a massive pain, and if the open source tool is an important goal, the closed source project doesn't get you anywhere except frustrated.