Akash's services economy will make open source sustainable
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“We have to create an economy for open source contributors to be able to sustain themselves, to build open source software, and I think that is what Akash is going to transition to with the services economy, and that’s coming next year.” — 00:47:56
Context: Argues no pure open-source company besides Linux has survived (Docker, Kubernetes cited); services (databases, inference, agent hosting) on Akash would pay open-source developers directly, lifting revenue per GPU from $20/day toward $50-100.