# Decentralization is the sustainable business model open source never had

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-07-29
- **Theme:** Open-Source AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/open-source-ai/
- **Source:** More than Decentralised Compute \| Converge @ EthCC 2024 (Caladan)
- **Watch at:** 00:10:02 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPy-ZVjNU4U&t=602s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/open-source-ai/2024-07-29-decentralization-is-the-sustainable-business-model-erpe/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Decentralization is the sustainable business model open source never had," More than Decentralised Compute \| Converge @ EthCC 2024 (Caladan), 29 Jul 2024, 00:10:02. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPy-ZVjNU4U&t=602s

## Quote — verbatim

> 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.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

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.