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Don't be Evil. Indeed. Well, you know, someone needs to keep IBM from a C&D against Hadoop.
by siculars 17y ago
Don't be Evil. Indeed. Well, you know, someone needs to keep IBM from a C&D against Hadoop.
- coderdude 17y agoHas Hadoop been out since 2004?
- abscondment 17y agoNo; it seems to have been inspired by Google papers as a solution to Nutch's scaling issues. See http://research.yahoo.com/files/cutting.pdf http://research.yahoo.com/files/cutting.pdf [pdf] :(
- lmkg 17y agoWhile I'm normally the first to pile on and complain about Google, in this case I'm going to hold off unless/until they try to enforce their patent. The big companies like Google and Microsoft need to preemptively patent everything they can, in order to stave off the real patent trolls. Of course, the necessity for defensive patenting itself just goes to show how silly the current patent system is.
- houseabsolute 17y agoWell, it's not a very good defense against patent trolls, because those guys typically don't exercise their own patents or anyone else's. However, it does help somewhat against companies like Apple or Nokia who are fine with litigating against anyone who tries to compete on an even footing. For example, if Yahoo or Microsoft sued Google for some search related patent, probably Google could use this patent against them.
- siculars 17y agoI agree. The defensive patent is becoming perhaps more important than the offensive patent, re trolls. Being able to use a patent in one area to not only defend against competitors locking you out of your own technology but also counter a potential patent suit in another technology is becoming all too common, re apple v nokia.