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Affinity Engines Says Google Stole Orkut Code
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.'"
I guess your mind becomes warped when you sell too much pr0n.
Affinity, meet SCO. SCO, meet Affinity. You have lots in common, you'll get along nicely.
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No kidding, but the footer may lend a clue as to why:
"© Copyright 2004 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. 1 017 Machine: 36 "
how 'bout I give you the finger....and you give me my phone call.
It's arguable that AE should sue Google, and Google should in turn sue Orkut Buyukkokten, assuming these allegations are true, and assuming there are no other mitigating circumstances unmentioned in the article.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
Here we go again, another SCO bidness model rears it's ugly head! F*ck IP! :)
You can't handle the truth.
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Perhaps if you knew how to properly use a decimal place and a comma there'd be a website outside of the United States worth a damn that someone might want to visit.
-- Greg
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