# Tokenized open source as the business model for open source software

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-07-22
- **Theme:** Other — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/other/
- **Source:** "\[Panel\] ​“Decentralized Computing as a Business”" (Kryptoplanet\[Official\])
- **Watch at:** 00:03:36 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXMqaH_0LCg&t=216s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/other/2024-07-22-tokenized-open-source-as-the-business-model-for-op-iqf3/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Tokenized open source as the business model for open source software," "\[Panel\] ​“Decentralized Computing as a Business”" (Kryptoplanet\[Official\]), 22 Jul 2024, 00:03:36. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXMqaH_0LCg&t=216s

## Quote — verbatim

> A big challenge today with open software... is contributor churn... we saw companies like Docker just run out of business after raising at billions of dollars of valuation... the challenge is how do we really create open source, stay open source, without taking shortcuts... that was one of the big things that we figured out at Akash.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Greg claims Akash pioneered a "tokenized open source software" model; says crypto's money premium gives open source new sustainability properties.