Tokenized open source software is the third open-source business model
"Hashing It Out #70 - Akash Network - Greg Osuri" (Hashing It Out (The Bitcoin Podcast Network))
“So far, the business models for open source software have been primarily subscription driven and open core driven. But now we’re experiencing the third business model, which is tokenized open source software, we call it, where it has this incredible incentive layer, the token layer on top of the open source platform… So how do you monetize? A lot of us are still trying to figure that out, to be honest with you. And our solution is [selling] hardware.” — 00:28:47
Context: From the recovered span (quote spans into the 00:29:29 block), answering “how do you make money?”: Overclock profits only if the network succeeds — via Supermini hardware sales and managed services (“setting hardware” is Whisper for “selling hardware”). An early articulation of the tokenized-OSS sustainability thesis he later repeats.