In my (perhaps limited) experience, most of those reasons are just different ways of spelling "our official solution is shit, because we don't care and/or make money in some underhanded way".

Agreed that I’m not sure jealousy is the right interpretation of imitation being the sincerest form of flattery.

Having said that, speaking as a Macalester alumnus, I wouldn’t put it past them to be a bit petty behind the scenes :)

I think the word usage is tongue in cheek