# The cloud is stifling open-source innovation by stealing its business model

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-01-21
- **Theme:** Other — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/other/
- **Source:** Akash Network, Cloud Computing on Blockchain (MikoBits Blockchain, NFT and DeFi Show)
- **Watch at:** 00:41:20 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRtkAUdqNFs&t=2480s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/other/2021-01-21-the-cloud-is-stifling-open-source-innovation-by-st-2flu/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "The cloud is stifling open-source innovation by stealing its business model," Akash Network, Cloud Computing on Blockchain (MikoBits Blockchain, NFT and DeFi Show), 21 Jan 2021, 00:41:20. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRtkAUdqNFs&t=2480s

## Quote — verbatim

> A big thing today in the cloud — and a lot of the open source community hates this — is because cloud is actually stifling open source innovation by stealing their business model.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Cites the Elastic vs. Amazon dispute; leads into the royalty-paying "Akash builders license" with Brian Fox and Solomon Hykes so open-source authors get paid when providers offer their software as a service.