[OliverGilan]

This seems weirdly hostile. He laid out a bunch of points but you’re grabbing on to this one to make it seem like he’s using classic corporate-speak. Do you find it so unrealistic that the CEO of Sourcegraph has heard from devs that their managers asked them to try to clone or investigate the product before buying? That seems pretty likely

[HelloNurse]

Investigating Sourcegraph's source code as part of procurement is not only plausible, but useful work that a software engineer should be happy to do.

Stating that making such evaluations impossible is a good thing is therefore more bullshit than other reasons to go closed source.