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I did find myself bothered, too, by the closed development process.
As for licensing, from TypeKey.com, under “How much does it cost:” “TypeKey is free to use for both personal weblog authors and commenters, and only requires registration.” I hadn’t noticed the “personal” qualifier before; it seems a bit concerning.
Ultimately, I guess there’s not much more discussion to be had here until, as, per KAShirow’s comment, more information is released. I have no doubt that, when that time comes, this will be a topic worth revisiting, though, perhaps tempered by the ensuing discussion in the weblog community.

I’m just curious as to what the community’s (and, perhaps slightly more importantly, the developers’) take on integrating this system is. Granted, the question might be hard to answer at this point, given the lack of concrete documentation, but, since some specifics of the system are known, it’s not impossible to answer questions as general as whether WordPress would support a centralized, third-party comment registration system, as opposed to (or in conjunction with) the currently-existing per-site registration system.
Also, since nobody’s mentioned it at all yet on the board, I figured it was worth opening a topic to spur discussion.