# Radical open source: "hiring talent by not hiring"

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2023-01-13
- **Theme:** Other — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/other/
- **Source:** Most UNDERRATED Cosmos GEM? Akash Network Deep Dive with Greg Osuri! (Cryptocito)
- **Watch at:** 00:05:05 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdQFOS-uG_A&t=305s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/other/2023-01-13-radical-open-source-hiring-talent-by-not-hiring-lfrs/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Radical open source: "hiring talent by not hiring"," Most UNDERRATED Cosmos GEM? Akash Network Deep Dive with Greg Osuri! (Cryptocito), 13 Jan 2023, 00:05:05. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdQFOS-uG_A&t=305s

## Quote — verbatim

> Anybody in the world can take up the spec and actually earn a decent living income. So now we are actually incentivizing developers that are stuck in fancy jobs at Facebooks and Googles... now we are solving a huge problem, which is attracting talent — we are attracting talent, we're hiring talent by not hiring.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Announcing the community-groups model (SIGs/working groups funded by the on-chain treasury) that open-sources the process, not just the code, after 2022 showed "how many attack vectors corporate structures have."