Alot of people don't realize this, but the foundations that wrap up to the LF have revenue pipelines that are supported by those foundations events (like Kubecon brings in ALOT of money for the CNCF), courses, certifications, etc. And, by proxy, the projects support those revenue streams for the foundations they're in. The flywheel is _supposed_ to be that companies donate to the foundation, those companies support the projects with engineering resources, they get a booth at the event for marketing, and the LF can ensure the health and well-being of the ecosystem and foundation through technical oversight committees, elections, a service-desk, owning the domains, etc.

I don't see how MCP supports that revenue stream nor does it seem like a good idea at this stage: why get a certification for "Certified MCP Developer" when the protocol is evolving so quickly and we've yet to figure how OAuth is going to work in a sane manner?

Mature projects like Kuberentes becoming the backbone of a foundation, like it did with CNCF, makes alot of sense: it was a relatively proven technology at Google that had alot of practical use cases for the emerging world of "cloud" and containers. MCP, at least for me, has not yet proven it's robustness as a mature and stable project: I'd put it into the "sandbox" category of projects which are still rapidly evolving and proving their value. I would have much preferred for Anthropic and a small strike team of engaged developers to move fast and fix alot of the issues in the protocol vs. it getting donated and slowing to a crawl.

From the announcement and keeping up with the RFCs for MCP, it's pretty obvious that a lot of the main players in AI are actively working with MCP and are trying to advance the standard. At some point or another those companies probably (more or less forcefully) approached Anthropic to put MCP under a neutral body, as long-term pouring resources into a standard that your competitor controls is a dumb idea.

I also don't think the Linux Foundation has become the same "donate your project to die" dumping ground that the Apache Software Foundation was for some time (especially for Facebook). There are some implications that come with it like conference-ification and establishing certificates programs, which aren't purely good, but overall most multi-party LF/CNCF projects have been doing fairly well.

Interesting move by Anthropic! Seems clever although curious if MCP will succeed long-term or not given this.

Facebook still has de facto control over PyTorch.

I really like Claude models, but I abhor the management at Anthropic. Kinda like Apple.

They never open sourced any models, not even once.

I've done a deep dive here before.

Hope this clears it up: https://glama.ai/blog/2025-06-06-mcp-vs-api

Anthropic will move onto bigger projects and other teams/companies will be stuck with sunk cost fallacy to try and get mcp to work for them.

Good luck to everyone.