# The "burgers and fries" cloud business model exploits open source

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2018-03-16
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** The Decentralized Future of Cloud Infrastructure (Outlyer)
- **Watch at:** 00:03:47 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUGjvs6IsrU&t=227s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2018-03-16-the-burgers-and-fries-cloud-business-model-exploit-xuab/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "The "burgers and fries" cloud business model exploits open source," The Decentralized Future of Cloud Infrastructure (Outlyer), 16 Mar 2018, 00:03:47. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUGjvs6IsrU&t=227s

## Quote — verbatim

> They follow a model called burgers and fries model: they give you compute cheap \[and\] charge you for other things that are not compute... Majority \[of\] the revenues for \[Google\] comes \[from\] value-added services... Google Dataproc, which is essentially Databricks' Spark... Databricks does not make anything \[like\] what Google makes on that product. Similarly you see \[it with\] Redis, with Amazon ElastiCache.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Argues cloud adoption destroyed the hosted-model monetization of open source — "centralized cloud is the biggest [beneficiary] of open source software [and] they don't really contribute that much."