With OpenID I believe it is no different. Your OpenID identity provider is likely to be "one company", most likely a commercial entity. Difference is that you can choose. Would you those guys on http://openid.net/get/ more than Facebook? I'm inclined to trust somebody who has a lot to loose if they screw up, FB fits in. Of course "open" is better than proprietary, but proprietary is better than nothing - thumbs up for FB. But it also creates dynamics for the open initiatives. More thoughts on OpenID and some links here: http://gbalnis.wordpress.com/2009.... - Grzegorz Balnis from FriendFeed MT Plugin

That's fine, with OpenID the point is to have one password to rule them all. :) - Daniel W. Crompton from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Clearly, the fault doesn’t entirely fall on the user’s hand. Yes, everyone should use multiple, secure passwords; but on the other hand, more sites should also adopt OpenID. Just because one is an OpenID provider, doesn’t mean that one supports signing on with it. So, rather than being a bad news for OpenID, the fact that people uses the same password everywhere clearly establishes the case for a unified authentication system—good news for OpenID. - Bram Pitoyo from FriendFeed MT Plugin