On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 5:17 AM, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 29 December 2013 12:55, James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com wrote:
Can we please stop paying the Microsoft and NSA taxes
The WMF doesn't.
and start buying datacenter equipment which costs a lot less? Cubieboard/Cubietrucks for instance?
Ref.:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/catalog-reveals-nsa-has-back-doors...
Best regards, James
Using non standard data center equipment is a great way to add costs.
Naw, it's a great idea. Let's switch to building our own ARM-based servers (by the way, which have already been a flop commercially), using only unproven, low-volume available motherboards and having to buy and assemble all of the rest of the components. And then of course, we need to design our own cases... and since these have such a low performance, we'll need to have a lot more rack and datacenter space, of course which comes with a cost... and we'll have to figure out how to run our caching layers which require large amounts of memory... and our storage layers which require large amounts of disk space..... At that point we'll probably need to redesign those boards which are incapable of doing these things, so we'll need a team of hardware engineers, plus a deal with a manufacturing plant.
So... I think with about a 100 million dollar per year research budget we can do this. Who's ponying up? ;)
As for security given the limited resources the WMF has whenever GCHQ, FSB and MSS have wanted to get in they have and there is nothing we can do about this. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe