http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL &p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7,650,331.PN.&OS= PN/7,650,331&RS=PN/7,650,331
The USPTO granted a patent to Google today for MapReduce, after several rejections. I'm no patent expert; how does this affect Hadoop?
