> I'd agree but we're beyond hopelessly idealistic. That sort of approach only helps your competition who will use it to build a closed product

That same argument can be applied to open-source (non-model) software, and is about as true there. It comes down to the business model. If anything, crating a closed-sourced copy of a piece of FOSS software is easier than an AI model since running a compiler doesn't cost millions of dollars.