One wrinkle is that the OG OSS movement is naturally hostile to AI. These are very different visions; you can't "bazaar" your way to V4-Pro, you can't even run it, AI rewards centralized compute and capital. What Wenfeng has done by forcing this trend is …unnatural, different.
Open-source has carried modern computing on its back for decades now.
without linux, http, ffmpeg, etc we wouldn’t even be having this conversation.
Now since the frontier AI has decided to be closed and evil [get to the trillion dollar cluster first, swallow anything that comes is your way, make no mistakes.]
DeepSeek is the only serious counterbalance trying to break the grip of this megalomaniac greed and gatekeeping in current AI/AGI development.