When OpenAI moved to deprioritize GPT-4o, the community did not read it as a product decision. The framing that spread treated it as an abandonment with a specific remedy: release the weights, let the community take over the maintenance burden the company no longer wanted to carry [15]. This is a more aggressive version of the open source argument than has historically circulated. Earlier iterations demanded openness at the point of release — share what you build. The current argument goes further: if you stop supporting what you built, you…