Here's some more info: http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/01/googles-mapreduce-patent-what-does-it-mean-for-hadoop.ars
It will be nice to get some official announcement from Apache Hadoop team regarding future of Hadoop. - A very scared Hadoop Fan :( On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Peter Sankauskas <[email protected]>wrote: > 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? > > > > >
