Yes, that's definitely an issue with my company. We serve a pretty small niche and provide services to a few well funded competitors, I've gotten a few acquisit

Yes, that's definitely an issue with my company. We serve a pretty small niche and provide services to a few well funded competitors, I've gotten a few acquisition offers that would have really hurt my other customers if the deal went through. Since it's a core feature but not a differentiator for their businesses I'd love to just make all of it open source and charge all of them to keep maintaining it but there's not an easy way to do that currently without devaluating it.