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…Yeah, I had the same warning. Okay. I would say that most people are happy with Anthropic. And you guys, obviously, because you created it. You guys being the stewards. But at some point, at some scale, you're going to hit some ceiling there where you're like, okay, like, you know, this is owned by one company. And, you know, eventually people want to like, you know, the truly open standard is a nonprofit. There's multiple stakeholders. There's a good governance process. All of which is governed by like Linux Foundation, Apache, whatever. So I want to ask, like, any thoughts there? I personally would say it's too early. You know, like, what are your thoughts? Yeah. I think governance in general is a super interesting problem in the open source space. I think there are two things. On one side, we really, really, really want to make this and have this be an open standard and open protocol and open project with, you know, participation from everyone who wants to partake. And I think that actually is working quite well so far. If you look at the pull request, if you look, for example, a lot of the inputs on the streamable HTTP thing came from companies. Like, you know, Shopify and others that had discussed and worked on this and brought proposals to the table. And I think that works really well. The thing that we are a bit wary about is any type of official standardization, particularly going through an actual standardization body or any type of, like, foundational work that starts having processes as part of this to stay somewhat fair to everyone. That can add processes that in a fast moving field, like AI, can be detrimental to the project. And that's what we worry about. We worry about processes that are slowing us down. And so we're trying to find this nice middle ground of, like, how can we have participation that we luckily do have from everyone, work towards everyone's, you know, everyone's, like, problems that they have potentially with the governance model and figure the right path forward out without, you know, having to go back and forth. work towards everyone's, you know, everyone's, like, problems that they have potentially with the governance model and figure the right path forward out without, you know, having to go back and forth. I think that's what we're trying to do. But yeah, we genuinely, we are very genuine in our desire to have this be an open project. And like, yes, it was initiated by Anthropic and David and I work at Anthropic. But like, we don't want it to be seen as like, this is Anthropic's protocol. I think it's very important for the whole ecosystem that this is something that, like, any AI lab could have a stake in or contribute to or make use of. But yeah, it's just, it's boundless. And we're balancing that against avoiding death by committee, basically. And so, like, I think there are a lot of models for doing this successfully in open source. I think most of the delicacies are really around, like, you know, sort of corporate sponsorship and corporate say. And we'll kind of navigate that as it comes up. But we absolutely want this to be like a community project. That being said, I want to highlight this, that at the moment, as we speak, there's plenty of people that are not Anthropic employees who have commit access and admin access, who's the repositories right there. You know, some of the people from Pydentic have commit access to the Python SDK because they did a lot of really good work there. And we had a lot of contributions from Block and others to the specifications. SDKs like the Java SDK and the C-Sharp SDKs, they're completely done by different companies. Like the C-Sharp one is done by Microsoft. It's a very recent addition last week. And they do everything there. They have full admin rights over that. The same goes with JetBranch doing the Kotlin one and Spring AI doing. The Java one. So it is actually, if you really look at it, it's already like a multi-company big project with everyone. It was a lot of people beyond just us two having commit access to and rights to the project as is. Yeah.…

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