Why the Linux Foundation adopted MCP, with Jim Zemlin and Mazin Gilbert

Agentic AI is in a hurry, and the open-source projects underpinning it are evolving at a breakneck pace. To ensure that agentic tooling advances as quickly as deployment, the Linux Foundation adopted Model Context Protocol (MCP), Goose, and AGENTS.md from their corporate progenitors, placing the group under the newly formed umbrella of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) in late 2025. And at the recent MCP Dev Summit in New York City, The New Stack sat down with Jim Zemlin, CEO of the Linux Foundation, and Mazin Gilbert, the new executive director of the new AAIF.