# Akash is the first open source cloud

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-03-24
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** AKASH NETWORK (AKT) - Decentralized clouds, Staking, Cosmos & more! - Interview with CEO Greg Osuri (Michaël van de Poppe)
- **Watch at:** 00:13:00 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY33CFNI-OE&t=780s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2021-03-24-akash-is-the-first-open-source-cloud-6v3q/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Akash is the first open source cloud," AKASH NETWORK (AKT) - Decentralized clouds, Staking, Cosmos & more! - Interview with CEO Greg Osuri (Michaël van de Poppe), 24 Mar 2021, 00:13:00. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY33CFNI-OE&t=780s

## Quote — verbatim

> The only way to do that is to remove the sense of control and centralization, to really go with an open model both for the source code... and provide a platform that's permissionless, self-sovereign and non-custodial — and that's what Akash is. Akash is, in a sense, the first open source cloud.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Summing up the three problems Akash targets — cost, developer productivity, and censorship (he cites deplatforming risk even for "small misalignment with the company's policy").