Re: FOSS needs a central bug tracker

[Bill Crawford <billcrawford1970 gmail com>]

On Sunday 26 April 2009 01:29:05 Callum Lerwick wrote:
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> Different OpenID providers are kind of like different states. Or like
> IDs from different countries. Passports. Whatever makes sense to you.
> Different organizations that have agreed to trust each other to vouch
> for their own citizens.

And, to go back to the earlier discussion, that suggests that each website 
*might* wish to decide which OpenID providers they trust. Otherwise the "ID" 
provided by OpenID becomes relatively meaningless, because anyone could create 
an OpenID provider when it suited them, leave lots of spam, then destroy it.