Liberty Alliance makes open source move
January 23rd, 2007 by Bruce Lowry 
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The Liberty Alliance, of which Novell is a member, announced today a new open source project, openLiberty.org, for developers to work on identity-based applications. According to the Liberty Alliance, “openLiberty.org was established to provide easy access to tools and information to jump start the development of more secure and privacy-respecting identity-based applications based on Liberty Federation and Liberty Web Services standards.” As a strong proponent of both open source and identity solutions, Novell supports this move. We see it as a good complement to existing open source identity projects like Bandit and Higgins. Both Bandit and Higgins are developing protocol and platform independent technologies, so both provide opportunties for collaboration with openLiberty.org.
We’ve had a foot in both the open source and the identity worlds for some time now, so it’s great to see work on identity solutions move more into the open source arena. Managing and securing open source environments is a growing requirement, so seeing projects designed to address identity issues is a positive step. Count on us to be an active player in these initiatives.
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