Either you&#x27;re projecting a lot into my choice of words or it&#x27;s because English isn&#x27;t my native language.<p>From my experience almost all cases where one party wants out and the other wants to continue (not just in tech) involve some amount of cash changing hands.<p>That amount being zero is just a special case for when very little value was accumulated. In that light giving &quot;just walk away&quot; as the general advice, even though it might be right in this case, is quite overly simplistic in my opinion.<p>And if your partner is also your friend you should also take that into account of course but from what I could tell the OP didn&#x27;t mention anything about that.