 It's a pleasure to be here. I think three years ago we were in Dublin together and Jim and I shared a Guinness toast on stage to celebrate 10 years of OAN's existence. And since then we've continued to grow. And I'm always reminded that when I come to an LF event of a conversation that Jim and I had just about 10 and a half years ago, his daughter had yet to be born. I met his wife that day and it was my first face to face meeting with Jim. And he talked about his ambition of really being able to create a series of projects. And I don't think at that point he could have possibly conceptualized just how this community has grown and just how the LF has become a fostering agent and a professional management organization to be able to help nurture projects like what Shirley just described, very important project related to the energy sector globally. And Jim talked about the idea, the vision of having these projects. And most of them was a very frank conversation. We talked about what licenses they'd be done under, how they would be administered, what kind of commitment, what kind of resourcing it would take. It was really the architecture of the transformation of the LF from 10 and a half years ago through to today. And obviously it has great momentum going forward. And we talked about how if we're doing these projects largely on permissive licenses which have relatively weak intellectual property protection components related to patents that we would need to partner up, that we would need to live in the slipstream of what the LF was creating. And really we've done that from that date onward. It helped me actually that session because I think I'd probably been in the CEO role for two or three months at that point and was really just getting my feet wet and understanding the community. Doing a lot of outreach, talking with a lot of people, whether it was the Richard Stolmans of the worlds or talking to DFSFE in Europe, SFLC in the States. And really understanding how I could have an impact and how OIN could be transformative, what its role would be. I mean there are stars and water carriers in this world and I've always viewed that once I understood from that conceptualization discussion with Jim and kind of understanding the ambition of the LF that OIN's best position is as a water carrier where the companies that you work for and many thousands of other companies not even represented in this hall today are the stars because they're investing billions of dollars in open source code. They're investing in technology development. They're investing in new pathways to be able to create a more effective way of collaboratively developing technology to drive innovation in ways that we couldn't have even conceptualized 30 or 40 years ago. And really out of those earliest discussions I recognized that we were gonna need to develop a vehicle to be able to protect what was inevitable, which is the world moving toward open source in a very profound and significant way. I'm here today to talk about some element of manifest destiny probably and I've used this term with Microsoft, but when I first came into my role there's a history and rather than go into the history I'd prefer to talk about the future but Microsoft's participation in OIN and agreeing to support patent non-aggression in the core of Linux represents a sea change and I've gotten so many notes from many of you in the audience and others that I've had the chance to meet and get to know over the years congratulating me on this activity and what it would do is congratulate Microsoft on facing the inevitability of the world as it is versus the world as a former CEO and former CEOs of Microsoft would like to have thought it would continue from the late 90s onward but the world has changed and you've changed the world and I think that's a testament OIN what OIN has accomplished is a testament to the growth of this community that the LF has fostered and the realization of every company sitting here and so many other companies of the importance of open source to their own competitiveness. I think for a lot of people they ask the question what really just happened? We've had many, many articles published by different journals whether they be industry journals or Fortune Online, Yahoo News, many other media outlets, ZDNet, what happened, how it happened and why it happened I think are critical questions and I wanted to kind of delve into this to kind of demystify what actually has happened and what Microsoft is committed to. The press release we put out basically talks about the support for innovation and how they've agreed at the core of Linux all the core technology which we include in something called the Linux system which is Linux kernel code plus adjacent open source code that's really central to many of the projects that Linux Foundation has authored and managed and projects such as OpenStack, Apache and many others. I picked out these headlines because they probably characterize the perceptions that are in the last 10 days since the announcement and the press release have really started to circulate. The bears repeating Microsoft has signed the OIN license, what have they done? Yes, it's true because for so many people for so long it's been viewed as the Microsoft has been through its own behaviors and rhetoric has allowed itself to be villainized but it's evolving and that's why this is a perfect forum with the theme of this event around the evolution of open source. No company has come further from being the most successful proprietary software company in the history of the world to now be a company that recognizes its need for interdependence. Its need to participate collaboratively with others in the world lest it fall behind, lest it not have the ability to effectively offer solutions that people wanna buy. The why of it is really about you. If this community, if the LF, if other project management organizations were not successful in generating billions of lines of code and getting participation from the best and the brightest people around the world to be able to code and contribute to projects, then we would not exist. We would have no reason to exist. We'd still have the 31 licensees that when I came into OIN after the first three years of its operation we had, instead of the 2,800 plus that we have now and a hundred of which have joined just in the last five working days since the announcement of the Microsoft license. And so it's the community on which we stand and the community on which we are building our platform. I said in Dublin three years ago that we stand on the shoulders of those who have pioneered open source legal issues that have been fighting in Europe, in the US, in Asia to be able to support freedom of action and freedom to operate and ultimately choice. If you think about this, this may look like something that's very sudden but if you look at this piece that was actually presented 10 years ago to UCLA's business school, the Anderson School of Business, there have been many, many people that have been pushing on the rudder that have felt like they've been pushing on the rudder of the Titanic inside Microsoft, some of whom are here today to be able to drive change, to be able to drive a new awareness. And that awareness takes time when you're especially, when you're coming from where they've come from. But that change is not over. It's merely midstream but one important manifestation of that change is the recognition that patents and control are not the vehicle to be able to enjoy competitiveness, in a competitive situation, and to be able to tap into creativity. If you wanna hire the best people, then you basically recognize the code of conduct that they accept. And I think it's significant that people ask me, well, how long has this been going on? I've been talking to Microsoft for nine years and some conversations have been cordial, some not so much. We've agreed to disagree on certain things and we've looked for areas where we had common interests. And for the last three years, we've been in active productive dialogue around the new realities, these realities that I'm describing, the ones that Jim and Shuli have described as well about the new world order. The whole idea of this modality of collaborative development that one plus one plus one doesn't equal three, it equals six or 10 or 20, when we bring smart creative people to come together to solve technical challenges, to create new innovation. And this partnership that we've had from really my first face-to-face meeting with Jim that I described a short while ago has really been profoundly important to, I believe, the fact that we've had precious little litigation in the community. OAN is a blip on the screen and it's a unicorn. To think that some of the most patent-centric companies in the world like IBM and Sony and Philips would come together with SUSE and Red Hat, NEC and ultimately with others who came in like Google and Toyota to put real capital out to serve a paternalistic role, to be able to support this modality, to protect this way of creating value in a new economy is somewhat amazing. And to have the foresight to create something that would appeal to those who on one hand are completely anti-software patent, maybe anti-patent across the board, to those who have grown their businesses around the idea that patents are actually relevant to innovation. Fortunately, I don't have to pander to one community or another, I basically present this elegant solution that was developed by 23 lawyers 13 years ago, 14 years ago now, and it has brought appeal. And it has brought appeal because of growth, because of you, because you're out there and thousands like you are out there participating and creating a community. And if you were not out there, if open source were not relevant, Microsoft would not be in a position where it's exposing its 60,000 patent application portfolio to a cross-license based on what the Linux system is. This whole idea of legal collaboration that parallels technical collaboration is an idea that Jim and I forged 10 years ago and this partnership is one that we live, as I said, in the slipstream of every project that you'll see listed. Every project that is here and those that don't fit on the page, managed by the Linux Foundation and others, we live in the slipstream of those projects. We take common code that's used in many projects. We take also project specific code and we bring it in, have it evaluated, we do outreach to the community to make sure this code is representative of what the core of Linux is and we create a patent no-fly zone around it. It's not a terribly complex concept, which is why when people dig in, look at it, they ultimately see it as valuable. The how of this, our mission is really simple. It's to enable choice. If you look at the title of the slide, the Microsoft slide that was presented at UCLA 10 years ago, it's really about choice. The developers, coders, the lead developers inside Microsoft at that time through today have understood that. At every organization, developers and coders have understood that. And really what we're trying to do is, again, create a patent no-fly zone that supports uptake. One of the things that would have really created, you look at the auto industry, you look at banking, the people that are joining the Hyperledger project, these are industries that have notoriously been risk averse when it comes to patent issues. Would they have actually embraced these significant projects 10 years ago, 15 years ago, 20 years ago, probably not? But it's a time and place thing where the community has evolved, risk mitigation has evolved to the point where it was acceptable for these companies to participate. OIN's membership includes these companies that have, as I said, funded OIN. We have over 2,800 participants. We've invested $100 million in patents that we provide a royalty-free license to, to be able to enable and encourage participation in the community. The cost is zero. This is just a sample of some of the companies that are participating from a whole variety of industries. And it's a global solution. This is not about an American-driven solution. It's increasingly becoming Asian because that's where more and more of the participants are coming from as ELF has done a great job of bringing in more and more participants to their projects. And so our representation reflects where Linux is and where it's going. China is a very important environment for us, one that we measure against Japan, which is really the foundation in Asia of open source adoption. And we keep track of this because it's a measure of how well we're doing in terms of our global mission. The bottom line is companies that don't participate in OIN are doing so for one reason because they want to reserve the right to sue on core Linux. There's no other explanation that's a legitimate characterization of why you wouldn't. And so I'd encourage those who are present to talk to inside your companies, to talk to your IP directors, your legal teams to encourage participation because we are increasingly moving toward a time when the community and this whole movement is around the notion of the elegance of kind of this collaborative development model that's self-organizing. It's also self-regulating. And I think more and more people are recognizing as Microsoft has that talent is attracted to behaviors, to norms and to an ability to articulate a clear vision for a company. If you wanna bring people in, then you have to adhere to a code of conduct and our license is really nothing much more than that. It's a code of conduct and a set of norms that are established as to how you deal in a world that where we've inherited a lot of proprietary technology and we've inherited a patent system. Rather than pretend that it doesn't exist, we have to deal with what we find, make the best of it and carve out a space for projects like those at the LF and others have launched to flourish. Thank you very much. Thank you, Keith.