# Crypto solves open-source sustainability (Docker/Kubernetes failure)

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-03-27
- **Theme:** Open-Source AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/open-source-ai/
- **Source:** Agents Unleashed - Progress In The Decentralized AI Stack (Training, Fine-Tuning, Inference) (Olas)
- **Watch at:** 00:26:41 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2khlH9vX2M&t=1601s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/open-source-ai/2024-03-27-crypto-solves-open-source-sustainability-docker-ku-pj2o/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Crypto solves open-source sustainability (Docker/Kubernetes failure)," Agents Unleashed - Progress In The Decentralized AI Stack (Training, Fine-Tuning, Inference) (Olas), 27 Mar 2024, 00:26:41. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2khlH9vX2M&t=1601s

## Quote — verbatim

> Crypto is actually a way to solve open source sustainability. Even companies like Docker couldn't exist because they were following the old model — the old model doesn't work anymore. Docker ran out of business, they sold... for peanuts, and Kubernetes is having a crisis with their contributors... because there's no way for people to work on something full-time and get paid for it.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

On open governance: Akash has ~480 contributors, only ~20 at Overclock Labs ("90% of the contributors have no direct control"), public product meetings, and a public goods fund — crypto incentives as the fix for open-source funding.