Facebook In Court

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday July 14, 2007 @12:53AM from the custody-battles dept.

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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Re:You'd expect the poster to have read the articl by Daverd · 2007-07-14 03:45 · Score: 5, Interesting

Facebook then filed a terse countersuit in California federal court, accusing ConnectU of tort violations and unfair business practices.

Facebook went a step beyond just that, they are also suing the programmers that worked for ConnectU at the time. I am now looking at having to pay a potential $25,000 if Facebook wins because I coded for ConnectU, simply because of this countersuit. Talk about unethical lawsuits...