OpenID Foundation Embraced by Big Players

An anonymous reader writes "The OpenID Foundation has announced that Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign and Yahoo! have all joined its board. It's exciting to see OpenID being embraced by such large players, but its also a concern that such big corporates are now directly influencing the fledgeling foundation. 'Today there are over a quarter of a billion OpenIDs and well over 10,000 websites to accept them. OpenID has grown to be implemented by major open source projects such as Drupal, cornerstone Web 2.0 services such as those by 37signals and Six Apart, as well as a mix of large companies including as Apple, Google, and Yahoo!. Today is about truly recognizing the accomplishments of the entire OpenID community which has certainly grown beyond the small grassroots community where it started in late 2005.'"

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Re:A quarter _BILLION_?

[urcreepyneighbor]

Yahoo! and AIM logins are OpenID logins, whether the users are aware of it or not. And, hey, guess what... you might have won the Publisher's Clearing House Sweepstakes!

The number is accurate. Technically, sure - but if the users don't know about the system and don't use it... who the fuck cares?

It's nothing more than words in a press release.

I firmly stand by my earlier bullshit call. The number, even if technically accurate, is bullshit.

If you want me to rescind my claim of bullshit, show me a quarter of a billion people using their OpenID as an OpenID. M'kay? Thanksbye! ;D