{"id":578,"date":"2006-09-13T21:51:58","date_gmt":"2006-09-14T05:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=578"},"modified":"2006-09-14T10:09:35","modified_gmt":"2006-09-14T18:09:35","slug":"doc-searls-on-osp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/?p=578","title":{"rendered":"Doc Searls on OSP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Doc Searls<\/a> – true wit, luminary and marketing guru – not to mention Editor of the Linux Journal<\/a>, on the OSP<\/a>:<\/p>\n

It isn't entirely a joke (or a fair statement) that Microsoft has become a legal department traveling as a software company. Yet there are some upsides. One is that some very smart lawyers at a very large company have had to engage Reality through company technologists brave and determined enough to engage the open source community in constructive collaboration.<\/p>\n

With positive results.<\/p>\n

That's what has been going on with the corner of Microsoft that has been involved in the Identity Space.<\/p>\n

I'm writing this from a room where Microsoft technologists are meeting with friends — and that's what they are now — with Red Hat, Novell, Higgins, XRI\/XDI\/i-Names and other open source efforts — as well as others from the customer side. They're talking right now about the Microsoft Open Specification Promise<\/font><\/strong><\/a>. The intention of the promise is to make Microsoft-developed (and -co-developed) technolgies completely useful by open source projects. Or maybe by anybody.<\/p>\n

I don't have time to write more at the moment. But I'd like to hear what you think. This is original and well-intended work by honorable people who really want the whole market to work, and not just for one company to muscle everybody else.<\/p>\n

It's also a beginning. Times are a-changing. Everybody can help with that.<\/p>\n

Check out Kim Cameron's IdentityBlog<\/font><\/strong><\/a>. Follow links there and at Johannes Ernst's blog<\/font><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Times are a-changing. Everybody can help with that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,2,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}