Noticed this article about Facebook's real origins The Facebook Files in 02138 Magazine and today's NYT has an article on Facebook to Settle Lawsuit Over Its Origins
Should be interesting to hear about the details of the settlement and what was agreed upon.
"...The ConnectU founders were accusing Mark Zuckerberg and the original crew behind Facebook of pilfering their profitable idea back in 2003, when they were all Harvard students. Facebook had filed a countersuit, accusing ConnectU of unfair business practices."
"...“Poking Facebook,” the article examines the origins of the hugely popular social networking website, and reports on a lawsuit filed against Zuckerberg by the founders of a competing website, ConnectU.com, who charge that Zuckerberg stole the idea for Facebook from them."
"...They include Mark Zuckerberg’s Harvard application; Zuckerberg’s online journal written while he was creating the website, Facemash.com; court documents which allegedly show that Zuckerberg had performed significant work on Facebook in late December 2003; an e-mail from Zuckerberg to Harvard’s Administrative Board, the university discipline committee, in which he responds to a complaint from the founders of ConnectU and alleges that he did not perform significant work until the second half of January 2004; court testimony from Zuckerberg in which he presents his history of Facebook; Facebook’s “Statement of Cash Flows” from the year 2005; court testimony from Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, two of the founders of ConnectU; and a summary of alleged damages to a house sublet to Mark Zuckerberg in 2004."
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