For those following the Google+ real names controversy, the following two links should give you a pretty definitive summary of opinion. The first, by Ben Tremblay, via Tim Carmody's G+ thread, lists numerous G+ threads (there's still no good way to aggregeate from Google+ so this service is really appreciated). Especially recommended is the discussion on Eric Raymond's posts. The second, from someone called Sai, links to a lot of the background and analysis of the issue, adding more analysis of its own. As I suggested yesterday, Google is most interested in identity authentication or "identified state", which I feel is a mistake. You may feel the G+ identity issue is overblown, but I think we're getting to some pretty fundamental concepts here, and the outcome of this discussion will be with us for a long time.
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