Evan Prodromou wrote:
"TS" == Tim Starling ts4294967296@hotmail.com writes:
>> Here's one idea -- a switch to toggle a captcha.That's an extremely good idea. Only one problem: I believe that there are patent issues around captchas. Not saying that Wikipedia couldn't get a patent license, but it'd have to stay out of the distributed MediaWiki code.
LiveJournal uses CAPTCHA and I'm not aware that they are paying any licenses for that. Knowing Brad, I'm pretty sure he wouldn't have done it if that had been necessary.