So a leasing company bought the source code for $2.5 million and then cut off owners after they refused an additional deal. What was the point, then? Is there anything rational about this market interaction?

The leasing company leases these cars to Uber drivers in NYC, who presumably did not get cut off.

That explains the over-representation of Oceans in NYC’s supercharging network, and one of the worst side-effects of opening that network to non-Tesla operators.

Overall I think it’s a good thing, but it’s the closest to Eternal September I ever experienced in my life, the sudden change inclusion of cultural strangers in a shared space with its customs etc.

Leasing company probably thought they'd found some suckers to pay their (the leasing company's) cloud bills.

Patent trolling