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Thanks, I did get that part :-) I'm wondering though why this would be a success where MS passport failed. Because it's not evil? Is usability the only left th

• petenixey 19y ago
  The Microsoft Passport solution was proprietary, heavy-weight, required a licence to use and was over-engineered. It had a pretty good user experience but it was Microsoft and it was also difficult and expensive to install. OpenID is decentralised, open-source, free and does one and pretty much only one thing very well. It may not win but historically those have been shown to be really good traits for success.
• alexfarran 19y ago
  Well I haven't had an OpenID until now. Here's what I think you're saying: A feature of OpenID is that, unlike passport, there is more than one ID provider. With Clickpass, although you can use a generic OpenID the normal way, it works best if you have a Clickpass account.
  • petenixey 19y ago
    That's a pretty good description Alex. We've tried to minimise the feature set and whilst we've made sure that people can use their own OpenID if they want to we figure most users won't. If it turns out that they do we'll switch to making it an automatic feature.