On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Something Something > <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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 :( > > don't worry > > every substantial application has a very large probability of patent > infringement
basically, no company that uses software can enforce a software patent against any tech major due to mutually-assured destruction through software patent armageddon. lots of tech majors use hadoop ergo google would be MAD to use the patent. - robert
