The judge’s message Wednesday to ConnectU over its intellectual property lawsuit against fellow social-networking site Facebook was clear: show us the evidence.
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Judge gives ConnectU founders two weeks to revise Facebook complaint
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Mark Zuckerberg, the 23-year-old founder of Facebook, will today be accused of stealing the idea for his enormously popular social networking site from a rival website. Mr Zuckerberg is being sued for stealing the source code – and design – of Facebook from ConnectU.com, a similar, university-based social network which he worked for briefly as a programmer four years ago.
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article2125952.ece
http://informationweek.com/software/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201200554
http://iht.com/articles/2007/07/25/technology/face.php
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/25/facebook_goes_to_court/