Nvidia's expansion of its open model families and its push for agentic framework interoperability were covered by IT trade press as ecosystem milestones. The framing was Nvidia's own: open source as a compatibility posture, a partnership signal, a hardware-agnostic pitch to enterprise buyers. What the coverage omitted is that the community with the most investment in open-source AI infrastructure uses a different definition entirely — one where 'open' means you can run it on the hardware in your apartment, modify it without legal review, and audit every component…