George Herbert wrote:
If there's anything currently in Google which
would seriously benefit
WMF, other than cash, it is likely that we could approach the right
people and get access to it.
WMF has, up to this point, been committed to building Wikipedia only
with free software. While it's exceedingly likely that we can obtain
some kind of privileged access to Google's technologies, it's also
almost certain those technologies would not be opened up to the public,
thus going against the principles at play here.
That said, there definitely are Google technologies that would be useful
to Wikipedia. BigTable and GFS are examples.
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Ivan Krstić <krstic(a)solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu> | GPG: 0x147C722D