you can't raise on an open charter and treat the open part as optional once the money shows up

the trial started on a question: can you charter a nonprofit, call openai your mission, attract 10 years of mission-driven engineers and donation capital on that promise, then convert to a profit-capped structure and call it an evolution?
elon left openai in 2018. the $130b in damages he's asking for goes to the nonprofit. whatever you think of him as a litigant, the question the case forces into court record is the right one: does a charitable trust have enforceable claims when the founding mission gets converted downstream while the original charter stays intact?
every open-mission AI org sits downstream of that ruling: grant-funded labs, talent paid in mission terms, donor-backed nonprofits, anyone whose charter promised "open"
twelve jurors will give an opinion. one judge will give the verdict