Comments on: Facebook to settle with ConnectU

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By: Cherith F. Villanueva

Cherith F. Villanueva — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 15:56:19 +0000

if i were Zuckerberg i would not settle for any amount unless you have approached me prior to your filing of lawsuit..
Although he might have settled for any amount, does not necessarily mean an admission of guilt. It could be a friendship reunion i should say, since they were friends before, maybe he just wants to share his fortune with friends that have probably meant his inspiration in fulfilling his long time dream to excel in such field.

By: Cherith F. Villanueva

Cherith F. Villanueva — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 15:32:35 +0000

as for me i cannot just take sides as all of you i consider hackers and if fate has been good to one like zuck, then God must have a reason to favor him so.i am not even sure who my real friend is, but whether one is moneyed or not, the most important is, industry luck and opportunity goes to one that is persevering and patient in focusing to any endeavour.. and not just too dependent on others.
The fact that they hired Zuckerberg, he must have had something they do not really have..technique and code.
Its just like a layman hiring a technician to repair his appliance. thats why he is hiring one technician coz he does not or he lacks the knowhow and time to do such.
Time comes that the worker or technician is already disgruntled with the pay, then probably he comes out and erect another or same or similar business to that of his previous employer. Now, if he happens to get huge returns because this time probably he does it better since he is already the owner, now no one in his right mind would question such ability of that technician as time goes and with all the knowhow he has including perhaps the collected codes if any plus the aggregates of experience..then?
So long as it is not your bank account or credit card that he stole money directly..even so, there has got to be concrete evidence. And mind you if connect J was the owner of the code, why would it be stolen? Did he not have a secured place to save his code? LOL just an opinion. no offence meant as i am also unknown to Zuckerberg.

By: Court won’t let ConnectU out of Facebook settlement » VentureBeat

Court won’t let ConnectU out of Facebook settlement » VentureBeat — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:03:36 +0000

[...] end to the legal dispute between social networking companies Facebook and ConnectU. The companies reached a confidential settlement earlier this year, but ConnectU’s founders have been trying to back out, saying they’ve [...]

By: will

will — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 02:36:27 +0000

so if I stole Jerry Yang and David Filo’s code base for the original Yahoo directory, launched it as Wahoo.com, turned it into a full fledged portal 2 years later, I WOULD NOT BE LIABLE for stealing code since the idea has changed so much and much of the code is unrecognizable?

bad argument . . . its the “I did steal it but I didnt use it” argument that theives use all the time. . .

By: Eric Eldon

Eric Eldon — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:27:12 +0000

@John. i see your points. and i respectfully still disagree:

1) WHAT original code? I mean, Facebook didn’t even have basic features like poking, the wall and photo albums when it first launched

2) I disagree with your reasoning here, because Facebook may want to just get this monkey off ots back instead of having the case drag on for longer. Innocent defendants settle out of course for this sort of reason all the time.

3) So maybe ConnectU has been jealous since early on.

4) Yeah, I know, it doesn’t look that good, but you do realize that Zuckerberg had also been busy with his own projects, like FaceMash. If ConnectU’s case was so amazingly strong — like if it had paperwork saying that it had rights to Zuckerberg’s work — then it would have won the case long ago. But the case is just sitting there mired in questionable delays… I really doubt that ConnectU has any strong claim here.

By: John

John — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:31:27 +0000

Guys, whatever it is but this guy Mark did wrong thing by stealing the code and concept of the guys who trusted him with their pet project. As many guys like facebook today, even i do like it but that does not make what Mark did right. Disappearing of a site’s initial codebase is not possible unless its done intentionally. Wherever he initially hosted the site facebook, those hosting providers make daily/weekly backups of your complete code. the owner himself(Mark) keeps backups, especially if you are such an expert like Mark.

The guys supporting him, just think, what if it happened with you? You have an idea, you wrote some code and trusted a fellow student at your university with your code and full plan, and he steals everything from you, not just your idea, but your initial code too.

I know ideas are worth a dime and execution/coding is most important. but he did steal the code too not just the plan and idea.

All the following are just a few of all the things which proves that he did steal not only the idea but the code too.
1) disappearing of facebook’s initial code.
2) facebook agreeing to pay connectU.com to settle the lawsuit.
3) connectu’s claim against facebook from the very begining of facebook.
4) Mark’s working on ConnectU before starting coding on facebook

By: Eric Eldon

Eric Eldon — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:25:13 +0000

@joe thomas i’ve never really gotten this argument. facebook in its early days was bare-bones php code. php is open-source and building simple features like user profiles is not meaningful IP.

even if zuck’s code was somewhat similar to connectU’s, can’t that be said of any very basic social network built in php?

it’s hard for me to imagine a run-of-the-mill IP agreement covering connectU’s bases here, but maybe you know more.

By: Anthony Ha

Anthony Ha — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:23:45 +0000

@joe thomas: Fair point about the code — that was indeed part of ConnectU’s allegations, and I’ve clarified that in the article.

As for the rest of your comment, I agree that there are plenty of reasons to be skeptical of Zuckerberg’s story. But to suggest that a settlement “clearly shows he was guilty from the start” is not just wrong, but also silly and irresponsible.

By: joe thomas

joe thomas — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:17:42 +0000

I think you got part of the information wrong. He not only stole ConnectU ideas, but also their actual code. Their code is what made the bulk of the first version of Facebook, which is what makes Zuckerberg a liar and a cheater. Ironically, people blindly adore him. Simply beyond comprehension! Although it’s a known fact what happened, the fact Facebook had mysteriously destroyed/lost all their original code and it’s now settling the lawsuit clearly shows he was guilty from the start.