Sickening shilling for MS by Ontario privacy commissioner

[Simon]

Google is your friend:
identity metasystem -
http://www.google.ca/search?lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=identity%20metasystem

The first neutral-looking result there is http://www.identitygang.org/

So, it's hard to tell just how involved MS is in all of this, but
initially I would say that an extremely adverse reaction to this is
unwarranted.  Suspicion may be helpful, but the real questions are
what is the standard in question, who controls it, and how open is it
to participation from third parties.  Not everything Microsoft is
involved in have to be bad, it's a matter of asking these questions
and seeing whether they're behaving or not.

To be clear, I think any distrust of Microsoft is consistently
well-justified by their previous actions, but it can't be so extreme
as to be unreasonable.  Unfortunately, many people take them
seriously, and if they see anyone hysterically bashing them, they're
more inclined to side with Microsoft rather than the hysterical
bashers.

Simon
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