For all intents and purposes you'll be able to move an open weight model wherever you want.

I really dislike this rhetoric, you sound like the FSF guys who are like "you're not free until you're running coreboot with zero binary blobs". Sure they have a point but also, most people are fine running regular linux.

Still, with the same model being served by multiple providers, it is much less likely to disappear entirely, even if you would like to keep using a cloud provider. Worst-case scenario, you change providers. Or you use OpenRouter as a proxy.

There is actual market competition to host open models. If one provider stops offering a model you likely can find another provider that will

But you have multiple providers, not just one.

No. As long as you downloaded the weights, you can run them somewhere.

>Unless you're running Linux yourself, it can absolutely be taken away.

Popular open models on Openrouter have dozens of providers.