Facebook founder a thief?

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Did Facebook founder Mark E. Zuckerberg steal the original idea for his social networking website from a fellow student at Harvard? According to Aaron J. Greenspan he is in fact the creator of original college social networking system, and he has the emails to prove it.

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[DraK]

Gee, sounds like a another napster/google/yahoo story..

Ideas was always someone elses..

Didn't Bill Gates steal code from CPM to create the original MS-DOS?

 

[Gatecrasher]

It never the idea, but what one does with it that counts.

 

[PearlJam]

It never the idea, but what one does with it that counts.

Agree, there is so many "idea" people, but very few "doers"

 

[dominic]

if true then it is the least of his crimes.....

 

[bekdik]

Didn't Bill Gates steal code from CPM to create the original MS-DOS?

He bought a company called Seatle Computing (or somesuch).

THEY copied CPM

 

[Oupoot]

The US patent system is different - not the first to do something with the idea / invention incl registering it, but the first with the idea/invention. Crazy. Lots of talk that the US must change that as it leaves a lot of open space for lawsuits all over the place. As one guy put it: every new invention probably uses copyright/patent of at least 30 others. It is just too much hassle for them to sue.