Not even closely related. One is big money corrupting academia, another is startup drama.
This is incorrectly assuming that all innovation happens in academia.
Sigh… no.
It’s saying that this is a case of academic innovation, and that that is startup drama.
I know what intentional suppression of innovation looks like. I worked in blockchain sector. I think you're underestimating the scale of it and hence you do not see that it's the same ideology behind both cases and many more cases.