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Re:OAuth Has Ruined Everything by agumonkey on Thursday October 22, 2015 @11:38PM (#10436658)
I expected that the amount of developers wishing for persona would hint a large shop to bootstrap the network effect.. alas.
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Re:OAuth Has Ruined Everything by chii on Friday October 23, 2015 @07:41AM (#10437950)
The problem is that the existing identity providers don't stand to gain much if they switched, but stand to lose their control. Lose, lose for them, thus they didn't switch.
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