[Python-Dev] Offtopic: OpenID Providers (original) (raw)

Oleg Broytman phd at phdru.name
Thu Sep 5 23:09:24 CEST 2013

On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 04:53:18PM -0400, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

On Sep 06, 2013, at 12:36 AM, Oleg Broytman wrote: > You cannot login using OpenID to most interesting popular sites. >GMail? No. Twitter? No. Facebook? FriendFeed? identi.ca? No, no, no.

I'd be surprised if you ever saw the big social networking sites support OpenID or Persona. They want to own that space themselves, so probably have no business incentive to support 3rd party systems.

But of course! And that IMO spells the end of the feature. Things that aren't available for millions seldom are available for a few, and if they are -- they are available for big price.

We're open source, and I think it benefits our mission to support open, decentralized, and free systems like OpenID and Persona.

But they also have disadvantages. Implementing such a major feature is a significant burden to sysadmins and is an additional vein for security breaches. That said, I don't mind if pydotorg would get such features. If FSF pays salaries and admins are willing to work -- no objections from me. But I am not going to use it. What gain if I can login to one site? I will change my mind when Google and GitHub start using them.

Oleg.

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