Decentralization is the sustainable business model open source never had
More than Decentralised Compute | Converge @ EthCC 2024 (Caladan)
“Docker, as a company — a tool which everybody uses… couldn’t survive; it raised a billion-dollar valuation, it took the web-two style of SaaS businesses, but that doesn’t play out well for open source software. How do you have a sustainable model for open source software? Well, decentralization… We have about 500 contributors, and that’s not possible using traditional centralized systems.” — 00:10:02
Context: Third pillar: network incentives fund contributors — he cites professors from MIT, Cornell, UT Austin, and Illinois getting grants from the network and publishing open research.