Open technologies are the future — governments must escape centralized choke points
Akash Weekly - September 14th 2022 (Akash Network)
“We anticipated this level of involvement long time ago. We’ve been arguing the fact that open technologies are the future because they reduce reliance… think about how much money and time investment goes into Amazon’s really centralized systems that have a lot of control and more often than not become choke points for combat operations or anything strategically important. It’s important for our government to operate without reliance on closed technologies.” — 00:02:54
Context: On the U.S. DoD website deployed to Akash via a community member. Greg adds later (00:14:27): “if Akash is good enough for a U.S. Department [of] Defense website, I think Akash is good enough for a lot of folks.”