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Facebook founder to appear in court

Filed in archive Newsdesk 2.0 by S.M. Schrama on July 23, 2007

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I don't have a facebook account. I don't know if I should, but there are so many social webs around, it is getting hard to decide where to have an account and where not. I decided some time ago that I need to stay on linkedin, but I will not appear anywhere else unless obviously necessary. I am considering Facebook, as it seems it is taken more and more seriously every day.

One of it's founders, Mark Zuckerberg was accused of stealing the idea behind facebook back in 2004. This wednesday he is to appear in court to defend himself against the accusations, but actually, I don't think it will stick. Why ? Well, facebook is based on an idea every school, organization or sportsclub has.
twinslinks Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra, claimed to have been developing their own social networking site, ConnectU in 2003 when they decided to hire Zuckerberg to help them.

According to them, the accused deliberately slowed down the development of ConnectU while he developed a similar system which he eventually released three months ahead of ConnectU.()

Even if this would be true, it will be impossible to prove.






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