[maayank]

I think that I speak for all when I say "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" (think skywalker)

Maybe the execution was not crystal perfect, but I think all of us would have liked OpenID (or some other free and open standard) to succeed.

Open world 0 : Corporate overlords 1

[wvenable]

I wonder if it's reasoning like this that has kept OpenID alive when it should have died a long time ago. You want the Open world to win over the corporate overloads, build a technology that actually works. A lot of effort has been put into evangelizing OpenID because it's a technology that nobody would want on their own.

The problem was the underlying concept is not sound and no amount of layer on more features was ever going to solve it. What we need now is to get the browser makers involved in a secure authentication system and start it first inside of smartphones.