I have heard that Google generally get patents to protect themselves rather than to enforce them. Google don't have any publicly available way to make money off of map-reduce (even Google App Engine does not map-reduce capability yet) so I would imagine they would be fine with Hadoop. Fingers crossed.
Kind regards, Peter Sankauskas Motally, Inc Office: +1 (415) 932-6898 On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Travaglini, Joseph < [email protected]> wrote: > 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<http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL%0A&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7,650,331.PN.&OS=%0APN/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? > >
