> Their government is horrible for a lot of stuff, but in this case they do deserve praise for forcing the "right" (according to me) direction. It's not just a

> Their government is horrible for a lot of stuff, but in this case they do deserve praise for forcing the "right" (according to me) direction. It's not just according to you. Without open weights, what happens if you get blacklisted from Anthropic and OpenAI? If AI becomes a standard tool for programming like a compiler, you've effectively been Blackballed from the field of programming. Full Stop. This is "Right to Read" coming home: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html In addition, without open source competitors to your core tools, we KNOW what happens. Cadence and Synopsys and a megabuck per engineer per year ... that's what happens.