On 0, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com scribbled:
On 06/05/07, Joe Szilagyi szilagyi@gmail.com wrote:
Perhaps it's because I've just woken up in the past hour, but are you joking, or do we actually have a policy to only use equipment on the NOC/infrastructure level that only runs open-source/GFDL compliant? (If we do have that policy: very cool, A++ as they say.)
We do. We only use the Lucene search because someone ported it from Java to Mono.
- d.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Java at least open source these days? And Mono was uncertain with regard to Microsoft's patents, last I heard...
-- Gwern Inquiring minds want to know.