# Tokenized open-source software is a superior model

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-04-18
- **Theme:** Other — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/other/
- **Source:** DePin, Scams & Decentralized ML (Chris Joannou)
- **Watch at:** 00:15:50 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImwkqmOSUkE&t=950s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/other/2025-04-18-tokenized-open-source-software-is-a-superior-model-32i3/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Tokenized open-source software is a superior model," DePin, Scams & Decentralized ML (Chris Joannou), 18 Apr 2025, 00:15:50. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImwkqmOSUkE&t=950s

## Quote — verbatim

> Now the question is how do you create a truly open source software and give everything out, you know, like all the features, capabilities, and somehow capture value and sustain? That's where tokenized open-source software comes into play — I think is a much superior model than traditional software.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

His conversion moment for crypto: tokens solve open source's sustainability problem that donations and open-core never did.