[OpenID] Anti-OpenID Campaign in Germany

[Recordon, David]

Ah ok, thanks for the help understanding what is happening and I'm glad
there is a strong community in Germany already responding to these sorts
of issues. :)

--David 

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From: general-bounces at openid.net [mailto:general-bounces at openid.net] On
Behalf Of Lukas Rosenstock
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 3:25 AM
To: general at openid.net
Subject: Re: [OpenID] Anti-OpenID Campaign in Germany

Am 25.04.2007, 11:07 Uhr, schrieb Recordon, David
<drecordon at verisign.com>:

> Seems there are some campaigns
> (http://www.deltalima2.de/aktion-openid-nein-danke --
> http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.deltalima2.de
> %2 
> Faktion-openid-nein-danke&langpair=de%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&pre
> v=
> %2Flanguage_tools) against OpenID in parts of Europe which I think we 
> need to take a look at.

As a native German speaker, I have looked at this campaign (it's only
one, not "some") and also the reactions, for example the discussion at
http://openidgermany.de/2007/04/09/openid-nein-danke/.
I know that Germans seem to be more critical about new technologies,
they tend to see only the negative side of things rather than the
positive aspects. It was sure that, if there was major protest against
OpenID, it had to be a German who says it!
Anyway, that guy who has this blog at deltalima2.de (where he lately
posted mainly about privacy and protests against
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_data_retention) and owns
openid-neindanke.de (OpenID, no, thanks! - For security and
independence.) seems to be quite alone with his opinions. There are
other people who criticize OpenID - which is nothing bad, it has its
problems - but from a neutral point of view, discussing both sides. He
accuses "us" to ignore or play down the negative sides, but he does the
same with the positive sides.
People from the German OpenID community deal with him already, e.g. in
this blog posting on openidgermany.de and he said another OpenID
provider already contacted him, so I wouldn't worry too much. However,
we should still work on communicating the advantages of OpenID,
especially what it can do for privacy, and for the future try to make
OpenID better.


--
Lukas Rosenstock
Identity 2.0 Europe :: http://identity20.eu/
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