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Open-Source ID Project Awaits Microsoft's Blessing

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the vacation-to-purgatory dept.

An anonymous reader writes to mention that an open-source alternative to Microsoft's CardSpace tool has been on hold for months while they await patent blessing from the Redmond software giant. "While CardSpace is available on Windows, one goal of the Higgins project is to cover other operating systems. Higgins wants to offer an open-source alternative that works on Windows and on alternatives such as Linux and Mac OS X. The application would work similarly to CardSpace."

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  1. Good luck with that by eln · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And people in Hell are waiting for ice water.

    Seriously, I know Microsoft loves to talk a lot about interoperability with OSS projects, but most of it seems to be PR-driven rather than reality-driven.