<div>From my experience, you can choose to link or not any provider to your website.</div>
<div>So we can imagine that consumers choose to refuse connection about others OpenID</div>
<div>providers.</div>
<div>The usefulness of OpenID should not be verified with one, more or three website.</div>
<div>Otherwise, if everybody is trying to add his own piece on the construction, the OpenID interest will increqse quickly.</div>
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<div>If OpenID has a phylosophy with some rules and API, that's not to appears like a serious idea. This is a serious idea.<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/24/09, <b class="gmail_sendername">Leslie Viljoen</b> <<a href="mailto:leslieviljoen@gmail.com">leslieviljoen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hi everyone
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<div>I am a bit confused about the usefulness of OpenID. I thought the idea was for a person to have a single identity that they could use at multiple sites. This does not seem to be the practical reality though.</div>
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<div>I got an OpenID years after starting my LiveJournal, but I can't seem to link up my new OpenID with my old LiveJournal account, so its useless there.</div>
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<div>Even though Flickr seems to support OpenID as an authenticator, I can't seem to sign in using an OpenID from somewhere else, so its useless there too.</div>
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<div>GMail? Seems to be the same story.</div>
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<div>So if all these sites will perform OpenID authentication for you, yet not accept OpenID authentication from other sites, once again the user has to have many logins and a password database and there's no benefit from OpenID at all.</div>
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<div>So far Slashdot is the only site I have found which actually seems to be doing things properly! You can link any foreign OpenID to a Slashdot account and reap all the benefits of single sign-on.</div>
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<div>Or am I wrong about this?</div>
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<div>Leslie</div>
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