A long-simmering dispute over the origins of Facebook is set to erupt later this month at a federal court hearing about whether Mark Zuckerberg, the young web mogul now being feted by media honchos, stole the original code for his booming social network from three Harvard classmates.
The lawsuit, filed by brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra, accuses Zuckerberg, Facebook's 23-year-old C.E.O, of stealing the source code, design, and business plan for Facebook in 2003 when he briefly worked in the Harvard dorms as a programmer for their own fledgling social-networking site, now known as ConnectU.
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http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/daily-brief/2007/07/13/facebook-in-litigation-20I have to say.. why wait 4 years.. oh maybe because facebook is now so popular... I use it regularly and I have to say I'm quite addicted - if any of you use it.. the add me :-)
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