Comments on: Why Hadoop Users Shouldn't Fear Google's New MapReduce Patent

By: Cloudera Puts Its Money Where Its Tech Is: Cloud Computing News «

Cloudera Puts Its Money Where Its Tech Is: Cloud Computing News « — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 18:07:58 +0000

[...] Apache, Cloudera joins the ranks of fellow Hadoop visionaries Yahoo, Facebook and IBM, as well as MapReduce creator Google. Google and Yahoo are Platinum-level sponsors, and Facebook and IBM are Gold-level sponsors. Of [...]

By: NAVEEN SHARMA

NAVEEN SHARMA — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:01:24 +0000

I fail to understand the intent of Software Patents. When a drug company files a patents, the idea is to protect an expensive research effort. Similarly, many companies spend millions of bucks on physical equipments etc. But look at software. How can you prevent a similar idea from coming into another mind ? I don’t believe if the original Patents philosophy of boosting research is actually applicable to Software? REPEAT: I THINK PATENTS ARE MEANT TO BOLSTER RESEARCH AND NOT HINDER IT. IF THEY FAIL THAT DUE TO ANY REASON, THEY SHOULD BE DONE AWAY WITH. PATENTS ARE NOT MEANT TO INCREASE COMPANY’S PROFIT (THAT IS A COMMON MISUSE).

By: Priya

Priya — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 20:36:06 +0000

Interesting how companies like IBM missed on filing a patent on this for years, they are patent hungry aren’t they?

By: Endian之争和MapReduce专利相关 « Java Oracle Solaris—背负一身情债的企鹅

Endian之争和MapReduce专利相关 « Java Oracle Solaris—背负一身情债的企鹅 — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:55:03 +0000

[...] http://gigaom.com/2010/01/19/why-hadoop-users-shouldnt-fear-googles-new-mapreduce-patent/ [...]

By: More patent nonsense — Google MapReduce | DBMS2 -- DataBase Management System Services

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:31:00 +0000

[...] GigaOm and Ars Technica on the Google MapReduce patent [...]

By: What You Didn’t Know About Cloudera – GigaOM

What You Didn’t Know About Cloudera – GigaOM — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:09:01 +0000

[...] made that everyone using Hadoop or MapReduce is in danger following Google’s patents. As we noted here, Hadoop really isn’t threatened, though. “Google has no track record of using patents [...]

By: Needed: Infrastructure to Make the Web Personal – GigaOM

Needed: Infrastructure to Make the Web Personal – GigaOM — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:30:01 +0000

[...] to develop new data processing architectures — ones that go beyond technologies like memcached, MapReduce, NoSQL, [...]

By: Are Google’s Open Credentials Slipping…Again?

Are Google’s Open Credentials Slipping…Again? — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 06:27:34 +0000

[...] answer, according to some, boils down to Google’s historic treatment of their intellectual property and the relevance this [...]

By: Google’s MapReduce patent and its impact on Hadoop and Cloud MapReduce « Huan Liu’s Blog

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:21:21 +0000

[...] that Google finally received its patent on MapReduce, after several rejections. Derrick argued that Google would not enforce its patent because Google would not “risk the legal and monetary consequences of losing any hypothetical [...]

By: Gena777

Gena777 — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:23:12 +0000

Google is wise to attempt to protect its assets from patent trolls. Trolls are proving to be a plague on intellectual property and upon innovation; they are private entities that effectively work to bring the federal patent law system to its knees. If enough people keep making noise about the problem, I suspect that certain government entities will eventually have to step up and take action against the practice of patent trolling. Until then, however, companies will have to keep protecting themselves by occasional over-filing of patents.
http://www.generalpatent.com/media/videos/patent-troll

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:30:16 +0000

Micro$oft has a money to un-declare and re-patent to themselves things, you know...

By: Derrick Harris

Derrick Harris — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:35:00 +0000

Courts can invalidate patents for “obviousness” under 35 U.S.C. 103.

http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions/08-1333.pdf

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Marc's Voice » Getting into the Cleveland groove now - blogging — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:42:30 +0000

[...] Why Hadoop user’s shouldn’t fear Google MapReduce patents [...]

By: Manish

Manish — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:37:04 +0000

If they might lose the litigation because it is not their invention, why did the USPTO assign the invention to them? Just like Nokia is getting litigious because they are losing in the market against Apple, if ever Google is in similar situation, it would most certainly use the patent to thwart competitors.

By: Google patents Map reduce “System and method for efficient large-scale data processing” « Scalable web architectures

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:44:31 +0000

[...] Gigaom pointed out that if Google really wants to enforce it, it would have to go after many different vendors who are implementing “mapreduce” in some form in their applications and databases. [...]

By: Derrick Harris

Derrick Harris — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:29:00 +0000

Perhaps not the best word choice, but I think it works regardless. They are using MapReduce's capabilities to enhance their offerings, which fits the definition of leveraging.