We got bought out a number of years ago. We'd been pretty liberal with our code up until this point as I'm sure many tiny companies are, but our new owners were

We got bought out a number of years ago. We'd been pretty liberal with our code up until this point as I'm sure many tiny companies are, but our new owners were very insistent on locking down "Intellectual Property" to exclusivly company controlled hardware locked behind SSO ready to lock anyone out at a moments notice... You are putting a pretty basic CRUD app in Fort Knox. We're not building anything super proprietary or patentable, it's not rocket science. Anyone could rebuild something roughly analogous to our app in a matter of weeks. The code isn't the value. Our connections, contracts and content are our value. Our people and our know how is the value. The code is almost worthless on its own. The time and thus money we've spent has been far more in finding and fine tuning the user experience than in "writing code". These are things exposed to anyone who uses our app. You could genuinely email all our code to our direct competitor and it wouldn't help them at all.