Oh. Em. Gee.
Is this a common take on Okta? The article and comments suggest...maybe? That is frightening considering how many customers depend on Okta and Auth0.
Also some projects like the Linux kernel are just mirrors and would be better off with that functionality disabled.
They definitely don't want them if their process requires signed commits and their solution is 1) open another PR with the authors info then sign it for them, and 2) add AI into the mix because git is too hard I guess?
No matter how you slice it, it doesn't seem like there are Okta employees who want to be taking changes from third parties.
This one is amusing, and as another comment mentioned below, large companies are awful at accepting patches on github. Most use one-way sync tools to push from their internal repositories to github.
Auth0 really is super easy and comfortable to integrate and I don‘t want to run my own keycloak or whatever.
OIDC is not scary, and advanced central authorization features (beyond group memberships) are a big ole YAGNI / complexity trap.
Especially when the AI is being represented as a person, this to me is dishonest. Not to mention annoying, almost more-so than the number of different apps that think they are important enough to send me push notifications to fill out a survey (don’t even get me started).
dovys•2d ago