they were being asked to become locked into a proprietary
infrastructure with an unstated business model. Nor could they get
their minds round the fact that using an open protocol does not mean
that an infrastructure built on that protocol is open.
It does leave those who don't like it free to build their own, though.
I find it intriguing that the explicit "Nobody's planning on making
any money from this." is regarded as synonymous to "We refuse to
divulge our business model." - is it so difficult to believe that
weariness of old "let's monetize users" (at their expense) attitudes
can motivate any of us to try providing something new, a protocol
designed for user control? (I don't think OpenID fully provides this,
but it's visibly a step in the right direction.)
-Shade
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