I hope he appeals. Not cheering for Musk, cheering for the fight.
It would just burn more cash unless he can somehow go back in time and change the facts.
There is nothing that comes out of this fight. Open AI has lost to Anthropic and Google already. And Musk needs to be in prison.
There's nothing to appeal. Statute of limitations is... just that.
Cross examination is one of the vanishingly few times you can see billionaires and executives act like human beings instead of sentient PR scripts.