Facebook/ConnectU Settlement Shows Why Losers Litigate

Courtesy Techdirt  Mon, 04/07/2008 - 17:40

Last year, in the midst of various claims from multiple different people that Mark Zuckerberg somehow "stole" the idea for Facebook from other Harvard students, we noted that it really didn't matter .

After all, the basic concepts behind Facebook were hardly new when Zuckerberg started it. There had been sites like SixDegrees, Ryze and Friendster long before Facebook came along.

What mattered wasn't the idea, but the execution -- and for whatever reason, what Zuckerberg did with Facebook...

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