Comment by nilkn

You are free to bow out. However, we are decidedly not nitpicking over minutiae. I don't think you have understood this thread, and that's leading you to make very confident assertions that are individually correct but just not relevant.

There's a kernel of a good idea in what you just wrote: open infrastructure can be part of a nation's sovereign technology stack. That's true, and Linux is indeed an example of it. But that has little to do with anything I claimed.

Linux is fundamentally not relevant because investing more in it does not confer exponentially increasing geopolitical leverage to a single nation uniquely above all others. Next-generation frontier AI, however, appears to have that property: if possessed by one nation, that sovereign production capability appears so far to confer exponentially increasing international leverage.