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
next prev 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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