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> But don’t be the out of touch Kung Fu master, heir to lifetimes of tradition, that gets mauled by an amateur MMA fighter.

Seems like a fundamentally poor analogy. Software development is collaborative, not competitive.

Within a company it's collaborative. Between companies it's absolutely competitive.

Open source is collaborative, and isn't exactly a niche thing, even at commercial companies.

Again, within the project sure. But there is fierce competition between different open-source projects!