A managed-services marketplace where open-source authors cut out the middleman — within a year
Akash's Greg Osuri on the Future of Cloud Computing | Mainnet 2024 (Messari)
“Amazon is offering these services that [are] essentially open source software white-labeled as Amazon services — that hurts the author of the open source software whose only business model is hosting… The way we’re going to do that is to allow the open source author… to offer their services directly to customers, cutting out the middleman… Open source services need an open source network… databases and caches and data warehousing services — you’ll probably see them in a year’s time on Akash.” — 00:25:45
Context: Q&A answer on competing with AWS managed services; he cites Bittensor subnets as an early proof of incentivized service networks.