In what sense is not giving your competitors ammunition "anti-competitive"? That seems pretty competitive to me. More to the point: it's almost universally how competition in our economy actually works.
fwiw I agree with what you're getting at with your original response. maybe I'm arguing semantics.
the more I think about your point that this is just competitive behavior the more I question what the term anti-competive even means
I don't think protecting trade secrets is sabotaging the competition though.