Instead, I am proposing that there are several potential conflicts here. That's certainly the company's right. Might even be smart business. Nothing illegal about it. Less sinister but troublesome nonetheless is the simple culture clash when open source meets commercial software.
Corporations play it close to the vest, open source does anything but.
The potential for abuse is real as well. He has helped many companies understand the differences between closed, proprietary software and open source. Of course, the Linux movement itself has its own minefields. They are developing non-free software, and that is directly contrary to our goals and our views. You would have to talk with them about that question.