Burgers-and-fries: clouds out-compete open source
"Crypto Stories: A Primer on Distributed Computing with Dani Grant, Dan Desjardins, Chandler Song, and Greg Osuri" (Village Global's Venture Stories)
“The majority of the revenue that comes to the centralized cloud providers happen to be from these value-added services. It’s like burgers and fries model. Give you cheap compute, but we make money on the value-added services. And these value-added services are usually white-labeled open-source projects.” — 00:14:07
Context: Google Dataproc vs. Databricks Spark example; argues a decentralized network has better incentives to attract open-source projects than hyperscalers do.