Re: [DotGNU]Bending the twig of .NET (large -- sorry)

[Norbert Bollow]

I agree 100% with what Ron Burk is saying here.  In fact I had
something like this in mind when I wrote about the need for a
"quick-and-dirty proof-of-concept implementation of DotGNU
Virtual Identities".

Of course the full vision for DotGNU is much more powerful than
Microsoft's full vision for .NET (including Hailstorm and passport)
--but that's a different story.

Greetings, Norbert.


Ron Burk <address@hidden> wrote:

> >There is another problem though.  One thing that you have to realize about
> >passport and .NET is that it doesn't always use a web browser.  You could
> >write application X, that makes use of passport.  This is where the
> >problem with either the Apache module, or the above instance comes in, and
> >this is why we are trying to develop a better alternative.
> 
> That's pretty much exactly the 80% of Passport that's currently
> unimportant, AFAIK. I do not know of any real users using such
> facilities, nor do I think most people will be using them during
> the next 12 months. I see the more simple single login standard
> as away to quickly establish mindshare with web designers and
> real users, mindshare that would make them much more willing
> to learn about a more complex offering that would likely have to
> be delivered much later. I understand the future threat of that
> other 80%, but if I have to take on a 300lb bully, I would rather
> kick him in the knee first and only trade punches after the initial low blow
> has proven successful. If a competing product steals the market
> for the 20% of Passport's functionality that real people use
> today, I believe that would represent a serious threat to
> their ability to sell the more grandiose schemes that are
> currently in the works, and provide much-needed credibility
> for non-Microsoft alternative.

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