You don't understand this. Liberty enables a company to decide what information it wants to keep about its customers and what information it will rely on Identity Providers for. From the CEO's perspective this is great - he doesn't have to wear the risk of holding sensitive information (eg. credit card numbers) but gets to hold onto the stuff that is important for maintaining a relationship with the customer. The customer gets to decide which organisation it will trust to hold identity-related data. I trust my bank to keep my credit card number, since they have it anyway, but I don't trust every merchant with it, therefore I would be happy to deal with a merchant which uses my bank as an Identity Provider. The merchant would never get to see my credit card number, nor any other information held about me unless I approve it. Likewise, my bank would never know the complete details of my transaction with the merchant.
Liberty gives the consumer and the company the best of both worlds, unlike Passport, which gives Microsoft the whole world.
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Didn't know those penguins are carnivorous...
You don't understand this. Liberty enables a company to decide what information it wants to keep about its customers and what information it will rely on Identity Providers for. From the CEO's perspective this is great - he doesn't have to wear the risk of holding sensitive information (eg. credit card numbers) but gets to hold onto the stuff that is important for maintaining a relationship with the customer. The customer gets to decide which organisation it will trust to hold identity-related data. I trust my bank to keep my credit card number, since they have it anyway, but I don't trust every merchant with it, therefore I would be happy to deal with a merchant which uses my bank as an Identity Provider. The merchant would never get to see my credit card number, nor any other information held about me unless I approve it. Likewise, my bank would never know the complete details of my transaction with the merchant. Liberty gives the consumer and the company the best of both worlds, unlike Passport, which gives Microsoft the whole world.
Correction - Linux and Apache!
Linux, according to Netcraft. But then, when I tried to go there, it was down. Maybe that's part of Ballmer's cunning plan...