Dustin Puryear <dustin@puryear-it.com> writes:
> Four open source projects by Microsoft?
They have to do something. Sun has just put the weight of its patents
behind OpenID.
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/05/07/OpenID-at-Sun
http://developers.sun.com/identity/
Sun has issued a Non-Assertion Covenant (NAC), which promises that
Sun will not enforce patents against developers of OpenID
technology. This means that Sun will not impose licensing terms,
conditions, or fees for the use of any patents held by Sun related
to OpenID V1.1 or OpenID Simple Registration V1.0. The only
condition is that developers refrain from asserting their own (or
others') patents against any other OpenID implementation developer.
Will we ever see Microsoft implement an OpenID interface to .NET? I
certainly hope so!
Recall that Sun spearheaded the Liberty Alliance, a direct
competitive threat to Microsoft's .NET identity framework.
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