Just like open source, isn't it?
Pushers of the Higgins open source ID project, IBM and Novell, are aiming to replicate the work done by Microsoft in so that a "user should be able to sit down in front of the open-source implementation and feel comfortable and understand how things work, like Firefox versus Internet Explorer" according to a 'distinguished' engineer at Novell.
I guess the word distinguished no longer has meritorious value.
When was the last time an average user sat down to look at the source code in a browser? Any browser. Totally bolsters my declaration that source code evaluation is a figment of the collective reality distortion fields of open source proponents.
IBM's chief security architect - deliberately non-capitalized, talking out of his a$$ as functionaries at that once-storied firm are wont to, indicated that Microsoft's abandoning of rights related to patents is what is holding this 'great' project back.
If that is so, why don't you dweebs actually, ahem, create something?
After all, Microsoft never innovates, right?
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