"Rich" countries have tiny birth rates compared to others, you can't ignore that fact by saying "people love making babies everywhere" (I live in Peru btw).
> or like one of Apple's arch-competitors is using Apple's open source code to compete with them
WebKit is based on KHTML though from KDE, so not entirely Apple's. Not to mention that chrome uses V8 which is not JScore from Apple but full Google's code.
Even Googlers agree with Eran, xauth is just a temporary solution, the real solution should go into the browser, maybe with a API that is xauth compatible. Mozilla is already working on those ideas.
> John Panzer's take on the XAuth project is pretty much spot-on. It's not that XAuth is what anyone wants for the ultimate answer in this space. > Rather, XAuth is a short-term way of pushing for any momentum in this direction.
> There are a number of companies leading it, btw:
> Etc., etc. (Eran suggested this was Google-led, which didn't quite strike me as accurate, given that Yahoo, Microsoft, MySpace, etc., were all as involved as Google was.)
> So, SaaS is okay so long as the "risks" are sufficiently small? Who defines that risk, me? So that makes it okay for me to use Google Docs, since I deem the risk of Google doing something evil with my documents to be small?
Yes, if you don't put anything too private in there, it's ok (according to him), he also said in another interview that it's ok to use Facebook as long as you don't put any private stuff there.
> ...thus violating the "essential freedoms" of anyone who uses your thin clients?
Could you explain why it violates "essential freedoms"?
http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/less_is_more_is_bullshit....