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Stephen Downes

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What is it about large corporations that. if given the option, they will invariably choose the more harmful of the options. Here we have the same sort of thing with OpenID - Google and Yahhoo and the rest are willing to issue OpenIDs, but they are not willing to accept them from other sites. And so they wreck the system. "While I'm sympathetic to [the] argument that more OPs is frankly better for the web, I'm not convinced that a Visa card is all that useful if none of the major department stores will accept it."

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