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Microsoft hires digital-identity/open-source maven Dick Hardt | |
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| Time: 00:01 EST/05:01 GMT | News Source: | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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Microsoft’s hiring slowdown hasn’t translated to a complete hiring freeze. Among the newest of the Red-Pill poppers is Dick Hardt. Hardt is the founder and CEO of Sxip Identity. He is known for his take on the “Identity 2.0″ concept (and blog of the same name). Identity 2.0, or digital identity, is focused on using emerging technologies like OpenID to improve cross-vendor authentication and user security. Among Hardt’s other claims to fame: He founded ActiveState, an open-source programming language and anti-spam software vendro that was purchased by Sophos in 2003. According to Wikipedia, Hardt also is “credited with the port of the Perl programming language to Windows, which, at the time, was highly controversial in the open source community.” |
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| #1 By 17855 (205.167.180.132) at Thursday, December 11, 2008 08:21:42 AM |
| Anything to help promote more of a SSO for online can't be a bad thing. Or can it? Interested in other opinions on this. :) |
| #2 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at Thursday, December 11, 2008 10:50:30 AM |
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Perhaps he can convince MS to not only allow OpenID logins, but to generate them too.
#1: SSO is a nice, idealistic concept, but the reality is very much different. All the major players, including MS, want to control the process. MS tried this already with Assport, but other than MS partners, nobody was interested in using it. Now MS is posing like it's interested in supporting OpenID, but only as far as letting OpenID users login to MS sites. MS isn't too interested in generating OpenIDs for their Assport users to let them login to other OpenID-supported sites. So, in other words, it's MS once again trying to define "interoperability" to mean that you interoperate with them but not the other way around. |
