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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Thu,  6 Aug 2009 23:03:17 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] linux reinvents factotum, secstore ...
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> 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