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		holman on June 27, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What's the status of Diaspora? Open source distributed open protocol networks made possible through public funding are always best developed in total secrecy. Naturally.

wmf on June 28, 2010 | [–]

To be fair, bikeshedding is equally bad.

WorkerBee on June 28, 2010 | [–]

And by ignoring all the other projects and open protocols that target the same problem.

This is because interop with OpenId, OAuth, RDF et al is hard so hey, lets go shopping! ...I mean, lets roll our own from scratch, that always works.

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