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OpenID Foundation Embraced by Big Players

Posted by Zonk on from the friends-in-high-places dept.

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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  1. Quite possibly by Burz · · Score: 0, Troll

    The new Windows implementation of Passport is now called CardSpace, which is built into Vista. This is a system that attempts to move web logins out of the web browser and into the OS, and uses Active Directory for authentication.

    If Microsoft is able to pull something where its monopoly of desktop systems and growing web properties in MSN, Facebook and Yahoo! don't login smoothly with non-Microsoft systems then Active Directory could conceivably become necessary to operate a successful website... even a Unix or Linux site.

    One of Microsoft's system architects, Kim Cameron, is spreading erroneous and misleading FUD (see comment #7).

  2. What people? by fat_mike · · Score: 0, Troll

    I work in a company of 2000 people and I've never had a single person ask me about OpenID. You know why? Because they have no idea what it is. Its not advertised, marketed or pushed and there's a reason behind that.

    OpenID and the government know how people reacted to the idea of a universal ID(drivers license) and decided it would be easier to sneak it in (AOL, Yahoo, Livejournal) than tell people about it.

    AOL - Covers a lot of older Americans
    Yahoo - Covers average Joe who just wants to be on the Internet
    LiveJournal - dumb ass kids and 20 somethings who are to clueless to care

    That's a crap load of the American public right there. I have read up on OpenID and it reminds me of Adult Check back in the 90's. I have one account for all my porn. One account that one company is in control of...does anyone see the giant pitfall here?