I have to keeping saying this on HN: moats have only a little to do with technical superiority. For the most part, moats rely on stuff like brand, UX, integrati

I have to keeping saying this on HN: moats have only a little to do with technical superiority. For the most part, moats rely on stuff like brand, UX, integrations, compatibility, business arrangements, past familiarity, etc. It's very rare for technical superiority in itself to override all that. Even if Gimp could match PhotoShop technically, it would still miss all the plugins and UX. So OSS often doesn't manage to overtake paid offerings. It depends on special people who are doing the extra effort. That said, OSS is in way better shape in the image space than in the LLM space. There are actually products and installers based on SD out there, something that won't happen in LLM space for awhile.