Just an assumption here, but the project appears to be about the methodology to verify the install. Who holds the keys is an entirely different matter.
(London. On some of my relatives.)
But I'm sure in this case when they achieve some kind of dominant position and Microsoft offers to re-absorb them they will do the honorable thing.
These people don't, but people you've never heard of are always doing honorable things.
Might be some sort of connection there.