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Open Teams originally wanted to rent out open source developers to sponsors with Oliphant controlling everything. Now they pivoted to installing local LLMs (on what hardware exactly?).

What will happen is that this will be the third consultancy with a lofty narrative after Enthought and Anaconda that Oliphant established. It is always bait-and-switch.

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Travis Oliphant here. That is very negative and completely unfounded take on my efforts to hire, fund, and redirect resources to open-source developers. I'm saddened and disheartened that you would feel that way. I didn't control Enthought. I founded but never controlled Anaconda on my own and my influence there has been small since 2018 and nearly non-existent since 2021. OpenTeams is another joint effort with multiple stake holders working to help mission-driven engineers work with investors to bring distributed and owned intelligence to everyone. I'm driven to create more owners, and support what I can. I wish you well in your efforts.

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