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Subject: Re: [OpenID] OpenID and the promise of profit
From: SitG Admin <sysadmin () shadowsinthegarden ! com>
Date: 2008-04-21 18:43:08
Message-ID: f06110405c4328f55fb1a () [192 ! 168 ! 0 ! 2]
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>I do think it shows that the mantra about non-commercialism is
>somewhat of a sham (and shams are never good news ), as folks ARE
>making money or gaining value from the technology indirectly. I
>don't think anyone is fooled on this.
I prefer to think of this as a more of a "profit of opportunity" than
a deliberate deception - at least for some of us. I don't think
OpenID (or the movement around it) BEGAN as an idea for how to make
money.
>I also don't really understand why the policy continues to be in place.
Because some of us still believe in it?
>OpenID has obviously passed its tipping point and doesn't need
>artificial idealistic constraints that could well make it miss the
>window of mass exposure that fortune has granted the movement.
They may be idealistic but then again they may be in accordance with
the intended spirit of the technology - the question is, will this
community sell-out in the name of popularity and money, or accept a
slower growth rate in exchange for keeping OpenID as it was
originally meant to be?
-Shade
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