[OpenID] JanRain library licensing (was: Re: On OpenID 2.0)

[Christopher St John]

On 5/11/07, Josh Hoyt <josh at janrain.com> wrote:
> On 5/10/07, James Walker <walkah at walkah.net> wrote:
> > I'll close with this too - as someone who has implemented a lot of "open
> >  specs" in the past couple years - having multiple implementations in
> > the wild is actually a very good thing... I've found anyway. Helps make
> > sure we're reading and writing to the spec appropriately ...
>
> Sorry to single you out, James, but I'm tired of hearing this
> justification for *yet another* implementation.

I believe the implication was that multiple implementations made
the spec itself better, and helped solidify the interpretation of
ambiguities and identify holes.

The best way to understand the spec is to implement it. I don't
think anyone who's ever implemented a spec would seriously
argue otherwise.

That isn't the same thing as making existing implementations
better, and it doesn't help users in the short term. It leads there
in the end though, and in a much more supportable way then
just interop testing a small number of implementations would.

Good grief, chill out guys, people wanting to implement the
spec is a _good_ thing, it means OpenID is winning...


-cks

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Christopher St. John
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