[H-GEN] openid opinions?

[Greg Black]

On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 19:13, Johann Kwiatkowski
<johann at spot-the-dog.com> wrote:
>
> While I have only briefly come across openid, I did come across this blog about openid via daring fireball,
> http://www.quora.com/What-s-wrong-with-OpenID

As is true of so much information on the Net, that article was written
by a fool. The recent drama with Gawker media is sufficient proof of
that.

> any opinions on this openid thing?

It seems to be useful for plenty of people.

> Anyone use it?

I don't (in general), but I have no real need for it. As a user, I'm a
geek so creating thousands of username/password combinations is easy,
simple and trustworthy for me. As a website operator (which I'm not),
I don't have a user base that I need to provide logins for.

> Does it make things easier?

That depends ...

Cheers, Greg