I've been following the thread. I would tend to side with the general tenor that has it that its likely a just-in-case move by Google and that the likelihood of a Google suing Apache is not likely to happen in this dimension.
Are you (or your employer) spooked Kay Kay? St.Ack On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Kay Kay <kaykay.uni...@gmail.com> wrote: > A big thread currently going on at the hadoop common user mailing list - > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hadoop-common-user/201001.mbox/< > 2c36b701001200817g77f245b1x6ba9d7d2cfd9e...@mail.gmail.com> . > > A good number of you might have already seen that thread, but just opening > up a thread for discussion to see what the thoughts of the community are , > w.r.t. patent and how much (if at all) of the application would be related > to that / any refactorings as necessary as seen by the team or thoughts in > general to the same. > > >
