# With closed you go fast, with open you go far

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-06-13
- **Theme:** Other — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/other/
- **Source:** A Decentralized Compute Marketplace with Greg Osuri (Software Engineering Daily)
- **Watch at:** 00:29:01 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O3HfvHSfqk&t=1741s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/other/2024-06-13-with-closed-you-go-fast-with-open-you-go-far-b4cq/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "With closed you go fast, with open you go far," A Decentralized Compute Marketplace with Greg Osuri (Software Engineering Daily), 13 Jun 2024, 00:29:01. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O3HfvHSfqk&t=1741s

## Quote — verbatim

> With closed you can go fast, with open you can go far. That's why any sufficiently important technology that has wide adoption is always open — starting off with internet, with operating systems... open source always goes so much further than closed source can, but it's so much slower.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Asked how a democratic, decentralized governance model copes with slow decisions; leads into his tokenized public-goods-fund answer to open-source sustainability.