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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.'"
But the big questions on everyones lips are: "Will Slashdot support OpenID?", and "Is Anonymous Coward already taken?".
May the Maths Be with you!
Oh, well, if it's designed to solve a specific problem with well-thought out requirements, then it must be totally limited, b0rken, teh sux0rz, and it will never work.
It has to have universal acceptance, be all things to all people, completely simple and yet so secure that Schneier worships it, or it will get no traction in the market. </sarcasm>
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear