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Facebook In Court

ScaredOfTheMan writes "'The lawsuit, filed by brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra, accuses Zuckerberg, Facebook's 23-year-old C.E.O, of stealing the source code, design, and business plan for Facebook in 2003 when he briefly worked in the Harvard dorms as a programmer for their own fledgling social-networking site, now known as ConnectU. The plaintiffs have demanded that Facebook be shut down and that full control of the site — and its profits — be turned over to them.' I just wonder why they waited so long to sue? If he really stole their idea in 2003, why wait four years?"

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  1. Musta only stole the good bits by OverlordQ · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well he must have only stole the good bits, loaded up the front page of ConnectU and must say that it looks like crap.

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  2. Re:why wait four years? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    why wait four years? just to make ScaredOfTheMan look like a tool for being ignorant of the legal system.

  3. Re:Wikipedia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
    dismissed w/o prejudice = they can refile the lawsuit

    lack of diversity among parties = someone vandalized wikipedia.

  4. Re:Why wait by RancidMilk · · Score: 1, Funny

    It's not like this is Digg, where opinion is preferred over fact.

  5. precedent by Jeek+Elemental · · Score: 5, Funny

    I hope this ends setting some kind of precedent, where lawyers everywhere are forced to reference the Winklevoss-Zuckerberg case with a straight face.

  6. Re:Why wait by Derosian · · Score: 3, Funny

    Look at the user who submitted it for an explanation of why.

  7. Re:Editors, please edit! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    "...but not which Trinity College. Is it the one in [...] Cambridge,..."

    That's all very well, but which Cambridge? Is it the one in England or Massachusetts?

  8. ---==[MoD]==[ParenT]==[UP]==--- by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Too many lols to count.