Minty wrote in gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical:
Would they be able to donate one of their Search-Appliance thingies? Even if as a short term measure?
i've thought about this before. i didn't look at the appliances too closely, but my impression was that they could only index a relatively small number of documents (about 10,000). is this wrong?
other than that, this would probably be the easiest way to solve the problem for us; OTOH it's not much use to other MediaWiki users.
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If there is a philosophical objection to the "non free" java, I can at least see the potential for concern about doing this,
the current situation appears to be that non-free software is not allowed, but software contained on other embedded devices is okay (e.g. switch firmware). given this i don't think there would be an issue with using one of the google devices.
kate.