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Liberty Alliance Gains Momentum

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the moving-along dept.

kabanossen writes "News.com reports that AOL is joining the Liberty Alliance, which is a coalition of tech companies who are creating an alternative to Microsoft's Passport. Other members of the alliance are Sun, Nokia, Real Networks and General Motors "This provides a common language for authentication to ensure no one company controls the single authentication network" said a rep. " Mmmm...open standards. Hopefully.

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  1. You'd have to figure he'd be there... by scoove · · Score: 1, Troll

    I found this part of the release rather interesting:

    Libery Alliance conference attendants noted an unusual episode at the conference where Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison showed up midway with a crew of Oracle employees chanting "Oracle today makes Osama go away!"

    Later, Ellison offered his company's support and participation in the alliance efforts.

    "Oracle would be proud to donate our leading Oracle database software to the alliance project," said Ellison. "To us, it's a matter of killing too birds with a single stone. With the power of Oracle 9i, Liberty's registration information would also serve as a national citizen ID database, protecting all of us from the evils of terrorism."

    White House spokespersons had no comment on Oracle's previous offer of its database for a national registration system.


    *scoove*