Open-source clouds failed until crypto could attach resources to software
"Greg Osuri | Founder of Akash Network: Liberty, Community, and the Future of Decentralized AI" (Beacon Podcast)
“We tried open source cloud several times before, and none of them really took off or succeeded or even survived because they didn’t have the resources that you can actually acquire through open source. So for the first time, I had an opportunity to create not only open source software, but also give access to the resource in an open manner.” — 00:15:07
Context: His thesis that a token marketplace is what makes open infrastructure sustainable — “software as a coordination layer and the hardware as the value” (00:14:08). Follow-on claim at 00:16:01: 500+ contributors, and Overclock Labs could disappear with Akash unaffected.