Why Block Handed Goose to the Linux Foundation: Agentic AI Goes Open

Block, the company behind Square and Cash App, transferred its open-source agentic AI framework Goose to the Linux Foundation. The move follows a familiar pattern: build internally, open-source under a corporate flag, then hand governance to a neutral foundation once the project outgrows its origin company. You've seen this script before. Kubernetes started as Borg at Google before landing at the CNCF. OpenTelemetry merged OpenTracing and OpenCensus under the same umbrella. The Goose handoff is...