Actually, the article is mislabeled, I think. It seems to not so much argue against competition, but rather for the public dissemination of data. Writing papers but withholding the data so that no-one can reproduce your results is very different from simply trying to be the first to complete a study but then publish all data so it's available to others.

In my mind, writing papers but withholding the data that your results are based on is a highly dubious practice.