I think your assessment of the current situation is probably accurate. My point is it's suboptimal, and the U.S. Federal Government could change things, as the

I think your assessment of the current situation is probably accurate. My point is it's suboptimal, and the U.S. Federal Government could change things, as the biggest buyer of tech in the world. If they said "everything has to be public domain", it would be a seismic event. I think we would all be better off if they did this (probably with the exception of <1% who would lose monopoly profits). Nit: I think you misread my ChatGPT comment. I said ChatGPT could be a competitor to office.com's _support_ agents, not that ChatGPT could build office.com.