This - talking about Google summer of code:
I don’t know about anyone else, but personally I’d love a Google Account sign-in for WordPress. If you wrote the plug-in in a pretty general way, you could no doubt also use it for OpenID, Yahoo accounts, Live IDs, TypeKey, etc. But mainly I’d like to use my Google Account to leave authenticated comments on WordPress blogs.
My italics - In what way does the setting-up of a Google account (sorry, Google Account) = ‘an authentication’?
The unholy synergy seems to point more and more towards WordPress as a misbegotten Mini-Me…