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Facebook: We Have Proof Ceglia's Contract Is Fake
An anonymous reader writes "Facebook says it has found the proof that shows Paul Ceglia, a man that claims he owns half of the company over a 2003 contract, is a fraud. Facebook says it has found the original 'authentic contract' between Zuckerberg and Ceglia."
Ceglia’s lawyers are claiming the “authentic contract” is shielded from use in the suit because it is designated as “confidential” under the rules of an agreement between the two parties. Facebook is asking the federal judge overseeing the case in New York to overrule that designation.
Damn Zuckerberg, it must be hard to actually *ask* people if you can change their priva... I mean, overrule their confidentiality settings.
sysadmins and parents of newborns get the same amount of sleep.
They just forgot to tag themselves when they uploaded it.
From the last paragraph of the article:
Facebook says all the evidence required to prove Ceglia’s contract is a forgery is in his computers and hard drives.
Wow.
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Deity fucking shit, your country is in the deep end of shit and you care about the birth certificate of your elected leader?
No wonder the U.S.A. is going nowhere fast.
I guess a lot of Slashdot readers would like nothing better than to see Facebook fade away into history like MySpace, Geocities and whats-its-name. Since it's based in the USA, contracts and lawyers have a pretty good chance of making it happen.
Here's what I understand: Back in 2003, Celigia contracted Zuckerberg to code for his website which was not related to Facebook. Celigia and Zuckerberg do not dispute that they had a contract. Zuckerberg does not have a copy of this contract. Celigia says his version of the contract which he "found" last year says that he (Celigia) is entitled to 85% of Facebook because the clauses of the contract which say Celigia got a percentage of Facebook for every day Zuckerberg was late with his work. Zuckerberg was late completing his work.
I found it suspicious that Celigia forgot for years that he owned a majority of Facebook. The other thing that is suspicious is the contract calls for Zuckerberg to surrender ownership of Facebook if he was late. Normally penalties are assessed in monetary values because Celigia is sacrificing hard cash for ownership of a company not related to his business nor guaranteed to bring in future money. It is also not clear whether Celigia knew about the existence of Facebook as it was much smaller back.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
Whenever I see Zuckerberg, I think Zoidberg, and it all kinda makes sense.
rewriting history since 2109
Because the people whose job it is to determine what is authentic in the world of documents are mostly officials who have only just come to terms with fax machines.
I don't see why people care about Facebook's legal battles anymore. It's not going to really change anything one way or another. Facebook wins, then there might be an appeal, if they lose there might be an appeal, and either way it's about money that none of us will ever see, and a decision that will not effect our lives in any way significant or insignificant.
Obama never claimed to "find" his birth certificate. He claimed all along that it was in the safekeeping of the Hawaiian State Government, and lo and behold, it was.