In March of this year, Google had its Open Patent Non-Assertion Pledge (OPN) made [1] : The company says to it, the use of some of its own patents in open source projects in principle to allow. This commitment remains in a sale of the patent exist and can only be withdrawn if the patent legal action against Google users.
Now Google has list of “open source” patents [2] expanded to 89 of the original ten, although there are some patents that Google has acquired in several countries, counted more than once. The patents include, among other parts of the MapReduce [3] algorithm for distributed computing, various method for transmitting data over the network, techniques for web servers as well as methods for monitoring and distributed data storage. <-! AUTHOR DATA MARKER BEGIN -> <-! RSPEAK_STOP -> ( odi [4] )<- AUTHOR DATA MARKER END ->
