Comment by crinkly

About 10 years ago I was on a contract sabbatical from the usual job and the customer at the time open sourced part of the product with the wrong license, a competitor forked it and made a superior product, undercut them and took all of their customers. They had enough capital to buy the competitor but it was an extremely expensive mistake. I'm not sure they ever broke even.

This was one of those niche industry specific things that no one would give a crap about if it was open sourced other than the competitor in the market.

Principal architect was tossed on the street for that one.