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- [Protocol and Open Source Funding](https://youtu.be/few99D5WnRg?list=WL). It'll add to the current ways to fund open source projects:
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- Consulting: open source the code, sell consulting.
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- Cloud: open source some code, but sell a closed source cloud complement.
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- [Community](https://mobile.twitter.com/balajis/status/1310101055816921090): open source all code, and issue a token or charge for access to the community.
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- [Community](https://x.com/balajis/status/1310101055816921090): open source all code, and issue a token or charge for access to the community.
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- Open Source projects would have a protocol. You could buy shares of Kubernetes, TensorFlow, ... or contribute to gain tokens. This [[incentives]] contributing and helping people.
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- [Many more](https://youtu.be/Axj8NJXnCN0)!
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- Tokens create new, scoped economies, and those economies enable new ways of organizing production and operation of goods and services. Because these economies are programmable, they can also embed and optimize for value systems and goals.
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- [Moving to protocols, not platforms](https://knightcolumbia.org/content/protocols-not-platforms-a-technological-approach-to-free-speech), is an approach for free speech in the twenty-first century. Rather than relying on a "marketplace of [[ideas]]" within an individual platform — which can be hijacked by those with malicious intent—protocols could lead to a marketplace of ideals, where competition occurs to provide better services that minimize the impact of those with malicious intent, without cutting off their ability to speak entirely.
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- The fundamental power of the internet is its _interoperability_. It was born out of the ability of different networks to talk to each other using common protocols. The interoperability is what we've lost in the Web 2.0 era. Even such quintessential thing as a web API has no well defined standard or protocol, just a very vague concept of REST or RPC. We need commonly accepted standards and _decentralized_ protocols: for web APIs, for identity management, for message queuing, for web callbacks (webhooks), for online transactions, for semantic web and ontology, etc.
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- [Use protocols, not services](https://notnotp.com/notes/use-protocols-not-services/). Centralized services are easy pressure points for compelled [[Identity]] checks and policy mandates. Protocols like IRC, XMPP, ActivityPub, Nostr, and Matrix have no single entity to compel. Pressure must happen server by server across jurisdictions. Choosing protocols over services reduces forced identification risk and improves [[Privacy]] and credible exit.
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- [Decentralization enables permissionless innovation](https://newsletter.squishy.computer/p/decentralization-enables-permissionless):
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- Designing for survivability often leads to decentralization, redundancy, diversity, and adaptability, contrasting with centralized systems optimizing for efficiency.
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- Nature uses these same properties for resilience against catastrophes.