Comments on: Facebook Lawsuit: Dorm Room Chit Chat Does Not Equal a Contract

By: Monica

Monica — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 04:02:43 +0000

Has anyone ever checked out ConnectU.com? It is… not impressive. In fact, Facebook was more impressive in 2004 than ConnectU is right now. Also, Zuckerberg was the guy they were getting to program their thing for free–meaning that he was doing all the coding and grunt work anyway.

By: andrew

andrew — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 18:17:17 +0000

Actually, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are the rich kids. They spend their time training for the US Rowing team using Daddy’s money.

Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard to get rich off an idea that he ran with after these two clowns, who were more concerned with making it to Crew practice, probably dropped the ball.

By: Chris Neumann

Chris Neumann — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 16:23:28 +0000

It’s .1% inspiration and 99.9% perspiration. I’m guessing the ConnectU guys are jerks and that whatever they had going on blew up, so Zuckerberg started FB, and won. Oh well. Even if Zuckerberg and the ConnectU guys sat around and had lengthy discussions about this idea, it was still Zuckerberg who went out there and made it happen. It’s really hard to do, and to continue to grow it like he has means that he’s doing a good job. I’m guessing the ConnectU guys will lose. If I were them, I’d settle for a bunch of FB stock and wait around for the IPO.

By: Teresa Valdez Klein

Teresa Valdez Klein — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:54:57 +0000

There’s very little doubt that Jared was influenced by ConnectU, but it’s unfair to say that he’s not creative enough to come up with the ideas that continue to make Facebook great.

Almost every great idea has a sore loser on the other end who failed to act quickly enough on their ideas.

By: Jared

Jared — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:50:39 +0000

Regardless of the outcome of this lawsuit, I think it is lame that zuckerberg stole the idea from someone else and didn’t try to work with them instead. Even if they can’t legally prove it, he obviously was influenced by ConnectU. For everyone claiming zuckerberg is a genius, this is proof that he’s not even creative enough to generate the concept behind facebook. If he wasn’t a rich kid from harvard, facebook would be nothing today.

By: Paul Butler

Paul Butler — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 02:51:14 +0000

Facebook is seeking to have parts of the claim, lodged three years ago, fully dismissed.

Has it been an ongoing battle, or has facebook just recently started trying to get this dismissed? It seems like cleaning up any legal messes would be a common thing to do before an IPO, so I wonder if this is yet another indication that they are going to go public?

By: Michael VU

Michael VU — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 02:07:15 +0000

Thanks for the clarification.

By: Rodney Rumford

Rodney Rumford — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 01:15:13 +0000

Actually this lawsuit was filed a few years back. Bottom line is it looks like they don’t have any good written documentation for their case. I suspect this case will be resolved at the next hearing.

By: Michael VU

Michael VU — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 01:00:42 +0000

I think this is just another case of “you’re one of the hottest internet companies in a long time and im going to try to get a piece somehow.” =)

It’s funny how the lawsuit came about AFTER the release of the Facebook platform. Or am i wrong?