Comments on: Welcoming Facebook to the OpenID Foundation http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2009/02/04/welcoming-facebook-to-the-openid-foundation/ This can all be made better. Ready? Begin. Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:50:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Michal Migurski http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2009/02/04/welcoming-facebook-to-the-openid-foundation/comment-page-1/#comment-103763 Michal Migurski Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:03:36 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/?p=1170#comment-103763 Choice is most certainly not "baked in" - I continue to stand behind everything I wrote two years ago: http://mike.teczno.com/notes/openid-again.html There's just no incentive for any site that supports Facebook to accept any ID that they themselves don't provide, and the user benefit isn't compelling (or even comprehensible) enough to overcome that. Without that incentive, OpenID has nothing. Choice is most certainly not “baked in” – I continue to stand behind everything I wrote two years ago: http://mike.teczno.com/notes/openid-again.html

There’s just no incentive for any site that supports Facebook to accept any ID that they themselves don’t provide, and the user benefit isn’t compelling (or even comprehensible) enough to overcome that. Without that incentive, OpenID has nothing.

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