So you have a problem with open source putting out alternatives, but you're perfectly fine with the free market, in which companies put out competing products a

So you have a problem with open source putting out alternatives, but you're perfectly fine with the free market, in which companies put out competing products all the time? I'm not trying to start a flame war here, I'm just curious as to why you think that a community of programmers working together to develop a competing product is any worse than a company like HipChat doing the same thing. I, for one, welcome this kind of collaboration.