What they are doing is non-sense. First, most of the patents related to MapReduce cannot be patented because they are just patenting algorithms. Second, MapRedu

What they are doing is non-sense. First, most of the patents related to MapReduce cannot be patented because they are just patenting algorithms. Second, MapReduce is no different from divide-and-conquer (circa 1945), but people and media hype MapReduce so.