The Geography of Code: Why the Geopolitical Panic Over Open-Source Models Misses the Point

In 1202, a young Italian merchant named Leonardo of Pisa published a book that quietly dismantled the commercial architecture of Europe. His treatise, Liber Abaci, introduced the Hindu-Arabic numeral system to a continent still struggling with the clunky constraints of Roman numerals. To the medieval merchant class, these ten foreign symbols were not just a novelty; they represented a massive leap in computational efficiency. Despite initial resistance from local guilds who mistrusted foreign customs, the sheer