# Tokenized open source will be the third open source business model

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-06-14
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** Tech Snippets Today - Greg Osuri - Founder at Akash with Joseph Raczynski (Joseph Raczynski)
- **Watch at:** 00:06:30 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOmzt7mv3RM&t=390s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2024-06-14-tokenized-open-source-will-be-the-third-open-sourc-yeu6/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Tokenized open source will be the third open source business model," Tech Snippets Today - Greg Osuri - Founder at Akash with Joseph Raczynski (Joseph Raczynski), 14 Jun 2024, 00:06:30. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOmzt7mv3RM&t=390s

## Quote — verbatim

> I think tokenized open \[source\] software, it's going to be a third leg of open source business models... You have Red Hat which mastered the support model... then you have the open core model, which is Databricks being a popular one... but Akash is pure open source, there's no commercial aspect... and I think the token \[in\] open source software, it'll be a third leg in open source business models.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Recurring thesis: tokens' second-order effect is sustainability for open source (Akash cited as category creator for DePIN, with ~500 contributors funded from the protocol).