# Sufficiently successful software must be open source — the cloud went the other way

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-11-26
- **Theme:** Open-Source AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/open-source-ai/
- **Source:** What is Akash Network? Greg Osuri on Decentralized Cloud Computing \| Greg Osuri - Founder of Akash (Genzio)
- **Watch at:** 00:00:48 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIX9lYr57fE&t=48s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/open-source-ai/2024-11-26-sufficiently-successful-software-must-be-open-sour-aaxh/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Sufficiently successful software must be open source — the cloud went the other way," What is Akash Network? Greg Osuri on Decentralized Cloud Computing \| Greg Osuri - Founder of Akash (Genzio), 26 Nov 2024, 00:00:48. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIX9lYr57fE&t=48s

## Quote — verbatim

> Any sufficiently successful software has to be open source — be it Linux, be it Android, anything that you would deem will have impact on a globe. Internet is open source. But we saw a direction with the cloud that was opposite: it was getting increasingly closed, increasingly oligopolized by few players, and that was a future we didn't want to accept.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Origin of Akash; years of work with industry and academia "to decouple control from resources."