I've have always believed that the reason there isn't SOME sort of open source login program is for control. That is the one of the main reasons I stopped following and messing with the EMU. (The others being an obvious "devs > all teenage club mentality", lack of effective source control, multiple "private" unsynced source trees and a general lack of any observable project management. )
I'm am fairly sure that if there were a concerted effort to find a way to have a PD/OSS login server, it would happen...however, I don't see that the dev's (at least not in the past) have ever had great concern for the concerns of the users.
I've heard over the last couple of years the story about the encryption subroutines being the issue and find it a tired story. Why not .DLL it? How was the .EXE distributed in the first place?
The idea that an entire project is basically owned by the 2-3 people who have access to the crypt code is a huge turn-off to many with over a 17yr old "club member" mentality.
Imagine having a copy of Linux but that all the crypt functions were only distributed in binary form by Linus and a couple others...yea, that'd fly. But then again, Linux would have never become anything but a little club if that had been the case.
The only sane thing I've seen come out of the EMU is the work being done by the world buliders. I support them as much as possible, even now. They are reasonable, smart, helpful and actually seem to want to get something done besides measuring their e-penis.
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