Upon reflection, I’ve come to realize that the relicensing trend towards non-compete licenses has exposed single-vendor Open Source software for what it truly is: proprietary software in hiding (or neo-proprietary, as Dirk Riehle said a few years ago). This post will go into detail on how I came to this conclusion. The backstory All relicensing stories are built on the same narrative around Open Source. A story that goes like this: At the dawn of the computer age, software was not considered val...