please... the past ten years is a story of companies loosing money for getting a monopoly and you are still asking us why would they do that?

let's not forget the shift of narrative that "open" AI made from their name, their marketing and use of opensource and then their move to a commercial subset of microsoft. let's also not forget that they totally avoided discussing copyrights and the crawlings of datasources to extract knowledge from someone else property. the only close thing i can see today which avoided so much scrutiny while being highly sensitive are ICOs in crypto and Theranos in biotech.

I wish opensource win this battle.