Just FYI, I know people had talked about this before in the context of using reCAPTCHA on wikipedia. The consensus, if I remember correctly, was that while it was open source, they required you to use their servers which would be an unacceptable point of failure.
Anyway, google acquired them today, so I guess there is some possibility that might change, although no discussion of this yet (and allow self-hosting)
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/teaching-computers-to-read-google.htm...
2009/9/16 Judson Dunn cohesion@sleepyhead.org:
Just FYI, I know people had talked about this before in the context of using reCAPTCHA on wikipedia. The consensus, if I remember correctly, was that while it was open source, they required you to use their servers which would be an unacceptable point of failure.
Not open source, or we could have run our own instance.
Anyone want to reimplement it?
Anyway, google acquired them today, so I guess there is some possibility that might change, although no discussion of this yet (and allow self-hosting) http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/teaching-computers-to-read-google.htm...
It'd e nice, though I can't see it happening.
- d.