As a native german speaker I was already thinking about to post this anti-campaign (started on April 8th, I think) on the general list, but I did not think it was worth giving this private person too much attention worldwide.
<br>So I decided to handle this on a national basis in my blog <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fopenidgermany.de%2F2007%2F04%2F09%2Fopenid-nein-danke%2F&langpair=de%7Cen&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fopenidgermany.de%2F2007%2F04%2F09%2Fopenid-nein-danke%2F&langpair=de%7Cen&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools</a><br><br>The result was that the guy who started this campaign asked me to delete his name out of my posting. So in my opinion he´s not even standing behind what he says.
<br><br>Another guy who´s job it is to fight against all kinds of datamining posted a comment. I commented on this and it was all quiet after that.<br><br>So what can we expect from that? Not much. The badge against OpenID can only be found on the websites of these two guys until now.
<br><br>What´s more serious is that the same topic (same guy) was discussed on a blogger conference (re:publica) and what came out was really a bad press in a well known professional newspaper: <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.netzeitung.de%2Finternet%2F612317.html&langpair=de%7Cen&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.netzeitung.de%2Finternet%2F612317.html&langpair=de%7Cen&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools</a><br><br>There is still no good understanding what OpenID is all about and before jumping on something new the big german media companies always tend to reject new developments.
<br>And as we only have a very low number of blogs and readers of blogs it´s hard to get this fixed. As Lukas already said: the german market is somewhat special, even if people are protected by one of the most restrictive privacy laws worldwide.
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Cheers from sunny germany :),<br>Thomas<br><br>-- <br>Solution Media GmbH<br>Eugen-Hertel-Strasse 20<br>DE-67657 Kaiserslautern<br>Germany<br><a href="http://www.solution-media.de">http://www.solution-media.de</a><br><br>
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