On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Steve Loughran ste...@apache.org wrote:
SCO sued people who had bought Unix source code licenses and threatened
end-users of linux over copyright. No patent lawsuits, just doomed copyright
TCs.
Yes, and Oracle was the very first company that said Screw you,
Hi,
As an user of hadoop, Is there anything to worry about Google obtaining
the patent over mapreduce?
Thanks.
Hi,
I too read about that news. I don't think that it will be any problem.
However Google didn't invent the model.
Thanks.
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 9:47 PM, Udaya Lakshmi udaya...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
As an user of hadoop, Is there anything to worry about Google obtaining
the patent over
Interesting situation.
I try to compare mapreduce to the camera. Let argue Google is Kodak,
Apache is Polaroid, and MapReduce is a Camera. Imagine Kodak invented
the camera privately, never sold it to anyone, but produced some
document describing what a camera did.
Polaroid followed the document
themselves from someone
else claiming it as their own and then suing Google. But yes, the patent
system clearly has problems as you stated.
--- On Wed, 1/20/10, Edward Capriolo edlinuxg...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Edward Capriolo edlinuxg...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Google has obtained the patent over
:
From: Edward Capriolo edlinuxg...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Google has obtained the patent over mapreduce
To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org
Date: Wednesday, January 20, 2010, 12:09 PM
Interesting situation.
I try to compare mapreduce to the camera. Let argue Google
is Kodak,
Apache is Polaroid
and then suing Google. But yes,
the patent system clearly has problems as you stated.
--- On Wed, 1/20/10, Edward Capriolo edlinuxg...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Edward Capriolo edlinuxg...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Google has obtained the patent over mapreduce
To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org
Date
system clearly has problems as you stated.
--- On Wed, 1/20/10, Edward Capriolo edlinuxg...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Edward Capriolo edlinuxg...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Google has obtained the patent over mapreduce
To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org
Date: Wednesday, January 20, 2010
, 2010 3:04 PM
To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org
Subject: Re: Google has obtained the patent over mapreduce
Just want to ask, how about AWS? Many services/programms runing on AWS are
based on M/R mechanism.
Does this mean, they owners of these softeware may be targeted in law, How
about Amazon itself
problems as you stated.
--- On Wed, 1/20/10, Edward Capriolo edlinuxg...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Edward Capriolo edlinuxg...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Google has obtained the patent over mapreduce
To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org
Date: Wednesday, January 20, 2010, 12:09 PM
Interesting
Personally, it
seems like they gave away too much information before they had the
patent.
I'm not a patent lawyer, but I'd expect they submitted the patent
application or a provisional before they submitted their academic paper or
other public disclosure.
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 12:09 PM,
Developers do themselves, their code, and their users a disservice if they
lack some understanding of intellectual property law. It can be
complicated, but it isn't rocket science.
In the United States, Google is protected by the first to
Typically companies will patent their IP as a defensive measure to protect
themselves from being sued, as has been pointed out already. Another
typical reason is to exercise the patent against companies that present a
challenge to their core business.
I would bet that unless you're making a
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