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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] linux reinvents factotum, secstore ...
Date: Thu,  6 Aug 2009 23:03:17 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f0098af6672c3b4c4b7c7f09d0e9e1db@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EF228135-60F6-4820-92E4-CF630FA54B24@sun.com>

> These are reasonable questions (and many of them have "yes" as the
> answer ;-)) but I have a more
> fundamental objection here: the desktop is just NOT the place for such
> a functionality to originate from. The very
> concept of a fixed desktop that resides on a physical piece of
> hardware that you own feels so 20th century
> to me. One way or the other the online identity issue is going to be
> settled. For contenders, though, I'd
> rather look at: factotum or things like OAuth.

X11 way back when, for all its faults, was more network
centric than openview or anything that came after.

- erik



  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-08-07  3:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-06 18:13 erik quanstrom
2009-08-06 19:33 ` Daniel Lyons
2009-08-06 19:38   ` erik quanstrom
2009-08-07  1:39   ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-08-07  2:52     ` Daniel Lyons
2009-08-07  3:03     ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2009-08-07  4:38       ` ron minnich
2009-08-07 13:06       ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-08-07 17:34         ` Daniel Lyons
2009-08-07 17:37           ` ron minnich
2009-08-07 17:46             ` Daniel Lyons
2009-08-08 14:44           ` David Leimbach
2009-08-08 17:12             ` Uriel
2009-08-07  1:30 ` Roman Shaposhnik

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