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Winklevoss Twins To Continue Fighting Facebook

Posted by timothy on from the lifestyle-to-which-they've-become-accustomed dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Facebook's longest legal saga, which has lasted seven years so far, looked like it was finally closed, but that was just a false alarm. In a filing earlier this week with the federal court in San Francisco, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's former Harvard classmates Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler Winklevoss, who accuse him of stealing their idea for the social network, decided not to seek US Supreme Court review of the $65 million settlement made in 2008. Everyone thought this meant they had finally given up. It turns out that the twins have decided to keep fighting after all, just with a different lawsuit."

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  1. Re:Dear Winklevii by drinkypoo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "got away with"? Zuckerberg got away with his crime for a pittance of a payment in stock, and he allegedly accomplished this on the back of another crime. Rooting for Mark is like rooting for Darth Vader because some Rebel made a bad pun.

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  2. Re:Dear Winklevii by JamesP · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If the WV had been capable of doing Facebook they would have done facebook!

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  3. How did he steal it? by g0bshiTe · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Seriously how did he steal their idea? When they came up with it, they couldn't have gotten it off the ground then? Did he beat them in building the site first? They couldn't have created their idea still? This seems frivolous to me. It's not like he stole their idea for a physical object and then patented the idea so they could never make it.

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  4. Re:Dear Winklevii by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Teacher, teacher! That big meanie head stole my idea!"

    Ideas are a dime a dozen. To get actual value requires--gasp--actual work. Get over it, move on, and learn how to implement your own ideas instead of being useless business majors.

  5. Re:Dear Winklevii by CharlyFoxtrot · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's a battle between 2 millionaire douchebags from a privileged background, I'm amazed people would root for one over the other. Screw all of them.

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  6. Rich assholes suing rich asshole by hsmith · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why does anyone seem to care?

  7. Re:Dear Winklevii by DarkOx · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In general I am inclined to agree but its not so simple in this case. They have always claimed that they were partners and had invested in Zuckerburg money for the start up. If that's true they are entitled to a share. That is the whole concept of venture cap.

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