# Cloud needs its Linux 1991 moment

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-02-08
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** The cloud, open source and flash loans with Greg Osuri (Citizen Web3)
- **Watch at:** 00:04:57 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3tZLp2CNgI&t=297s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2021-02-08-cloud-needs-its-linux-1991-moment-drku/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Cloud needs its Linux 1991 moment," The cloud, open source and flash loans with Greg Osuri (Citizen Web3), 8 Feb 2021, 00:04:57. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3tZLp2CNgI&t=297s

## Quote — verbatim

> I mean, we had operating systems that were closed before 1991... 1991 came about with the introduction of Linux, the first free and open operating system that fundamentally changed the fabric of software.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

His analogy that a closed cloud is like closed operating systems pre-Linux; decentralized cloud is the open successor, with benefits "we haven't discovered" yet.