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The Liberty Alliance Grows Again

Posted by Hemos on from the now-if-they-would-just-do-something dept.

sempf writes "The Liberty Alliance, a Sun-backed open-specification alternative to the Microsoft platform's Passport system, has added two very powerful members, Oracle and Intel. Now over 150 members, one wonders at the future of a world where we have two single sign-on systems. With the three big IM platforms joining forces, is the identity standard of the world going to be Microsoft, or Sun? Is this going to be the next Browser War?"

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  1. Where is the free IM presence provider? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Jabber? Why arent there free IM presence providers. Similar to the IRC networks ..cant IM be latched onto EFnet or something?

    I guess once AOL and M$FT starts charging it will happen.

    M$FT is really unethical and dirty in their banning of free third party IM clients from their network when back in 2000 they deliberately tried to "hack" and integrate with AOL .. even going so far as to modify the client when AOL tried to ban the MSN Messenger.

    Has everyone forgotten this??

    Trillian etc. are illegal according to the M$FT terms of service. One day M$FT may try to sue Trillian and get them thrown in jail for simply doing what Microsoft themselves tried to do 4 years ago. It's a gross injustice and very evil unethical behavior on Microsoft's part.

    Why hasn't microsoft been called up on this?
    I think it's pretty damn ugly of them. Honestly it pisses me off more than the whole operating system monopoly thing. Because we are talking blatant double standards and hypocrisy.

    -Johan