Press coverage of OpenAI's open-weight release reached instinctively for the invasion metaphor — a closed-source giant muscling into territory claimed by Meta, DeepSeek, and Mistral [13]. That frame was accurate as market description and irrelevant as community description. The developers who received gpt-oss-20b and gpt-oss-120b were not defending a perimeter. They were evaluating additions to a toolchain they had already assembled from multiple sources, and the question they asked was not "who wins" but "does this run well locally."