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Affinity Engines Says Google Stole Orkut Code

Posted by timothy on from the your-head-please dept.

GillBates0 writes "Wired's reporting that a social networking software company called Affinity Engines has filed a lawsuit against Google, claiming that much of the source code behind Orkut, the search engine's popular social service, was stolen by former engineer Orkut Buyukkokten. They claim that he illegally took the code the he had written for the company -- which he co-founded -- with him when he joined Google and that Buyukkokten promised Affinity Engines that he wouldn't develop a competing social network service for Google. '"In its initial investigation, AEI uncovered a total of nine unique software bugs ... in AEI's inCircle product that were also present in Orkut.com," according to the lawsuit.'"

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  1. In related news... by piecewise · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Friendster still sucks.

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  2. Hey my user page shows it was rejected... by GillBates0 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    From here:

    Lawsuit: Google stole Orkut code Wednesday June 30, @01:39PM Rejected

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    1. Re:Hey my user page shows it was rejected... by Neophytus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I've had a few things that were later accepted but credit wasn't given.

    2. Re:Hey my user page shows it was rejected... by SirGeek · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      It happens if one editor rejects it while another one approves it. You don't get the credit for it.

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    3. Re:Hey my user page shows it was rejected... by Ironica · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Just read and enjoy /. and let others fight for the "priviledge" of having a story accepted. There are more worthwhile things to get upset about.

      He's not upset about his story getting rejected. He's amused by the incongruity between what it reports the submission as on his user page, and the fact that it actually showed up on the front page.

      Though it seems maybe the discrepancy is because they changed the headline. It may be that in order to do that, they have to "reject" it and reenter it manually.

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    4. Re:Hey my user page shows it was rejected... by jasoncart · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I've got one thats been accepted still down as 'Pending'

  3. Lies! by Pikhq · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The guy changed his name to Orkut to make this claim! It's all lies! Bwahahahahahaha
    (stop modding me overrated, or else I shall become like the above post 24/7)

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  4. Re:OT: by Pikhq · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yes. If I find out who's modding me down constantly, I am going to strangle them................... (Yes, that is a threat)

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  5. Re:Why? by superflippy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Completely OT, but I love your new sig. That is one of my favorite silly songs EVAR.

    I'm from the IRS! *slam!*

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  6. Re:"Popular" by maelstrom · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    aww yea.

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