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Man Who Claims Ownership Over Facebook Willing To Hire Zuckerberg To Run It

9 points by Concours 16y ago

pierrefar 16y ago
Why read fiction when we have this? I guess in fiction things have to make sense at some level.
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jacquesm 16y ago
Articles like this are completely useless. It's about a lawsuit that hasn't got a snowballs chance in hell of succeeding and what would happen if that lawsuit would succeed and the parties involved would not be at each others throats in a countersuit. It's worse than speculative. It there is one thing you should take home from this then it is that you should make sure that the origins of your start-up should be impeccable on the off-chance that one day you might be successful. For sure there will be a whole pile of bottom feeders coming after you anyway but if you make their lives easier by doing shady stuff you will have more trouble to contend with.
- qq66 16y ago
  Did I miss an event in this saga? I thought that Zuckerberg was actually under contract to this guy to build a college social networking site called The Face Book. I'm not a lawyer, but it seemed as though that could be severely problematic for Zuckerberg. Despite widespread opinion of Zuckerberg, I think he is one of the great visionaries of our time and I definitely don't want some Brylcreem "entrepreneur" to steal his company from him.
  - jacquesm 16y ago
    Funny how he's the last person to realise that he had a contract that suddenly makes him an 84% stakeholder in facebook. What are the changes of that do you think? And only on the off chance that he had to pay off some people so he was looking for 'assets' that he could liquidate. NFW. The only reason this lawsuit ever got started is hoping for a settlement and the only reason there is a chance of a settlement is because Zuckerberg is under fire from about every angle regarding the origins of facebook, which are indeed murky. But not so murky that a judge is going to side with this character. It's going to cost a small fortune in legal fees on both sides during the intermediate time though, and if facebook wants to IPO they'll have to settle because there is no way they are going to be able to with a 'cloud' like this. You can't possibly give stuff like this any credibility. It's right on par with SCO saying they own all of Linux, someone claiming to own the patent on hyperlinks and other outrageous claims. It's fodder for the tech-sensationalist press but nobody even remotely knowledgeable about this sort of thing will give better than 100:1 odds that this guy will prevail if the suit is going forward, it's an ordinary case of harassment using the legal system. It's just another bottom feeder trying his luck in the lottery called the American Justice System. Lawyer that take cases like this ought to be fined and disbarred for life, they give all the other lawyers a very bad name. Yuck.
shortformblog 16y ago
Something smells here. You don't forget about a contract with the guy running a company this big for seven years. Come on, as popular and overused as this site is? I refuse to believe that this guy has been sleeping under a rock and one day just stumbled upon a contract. And this is just unbelievable. It's sort of an implicit admission that the lawsuit's a money grab to him and nothing more: “If at some point in the future I start running Facebook, I guess I’m going to have to hire him to keep running the company,” Ceglia said. “I really don’t have much interest in it.”
- CodeMage 16y ago
  The contract part smells fishy, yes. But the admission is refreshingly honest.
_pius 16y ago
Lawyer HN'ers: does Doctrine of Laches apply here?

9 points by Concours 16y ago

pierrefar 16y ago

Why read fiction when we have this? I guess in fiction things have to make sense at some level.

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jacquesm 16y ago

Articles like this are completely useless. It's about a lawsuit that hasn't got a snowballs chance in hell of succeeding and what would happen if that lawsuit would succeed and the parties involved would not be at each others throats in a countersuit. It's worse than speculative. It there is one thing you should take home from this then it is that you should make sure that the origins of your start-up should be impeccable on the off-chance that one day you might be successful. For sure there will be a whole pile of bottom feeders coming after you anyway but if you make their lives easier by doing shady stuff you will have more trouble to contend with.

qq66 16y ago
Did I miss an event in this saga? I thought that Zuckerberg was actually under contract to this guy to build a college social networking site called The Face Book. I'm not a lawyer, but it seemed as though that could be severely problematic for Zuckerberg. Despite widespread opinion of Zuckerberg, I think he is one of the great visionaries of our time and I definitely don't want some Brylcreem "entrepreneur" to steal his company from him.
- jacquesm 16y ago
  Funny how he's the last person to realise that he had a contract that suddenly makes him an 84% stakeholder in facebook. What are the changes of that do you think? And only on the off chance that he had to pay off some people so he was looking for 'assets' that he could liquidate. NFW. The only reason this lawsuit ever got started is hoping for a settlement and the only reason there is a chance of a settlement is because Zuckerberg is under fire from about every angle regarding the origins of facebook, which are indeed murky. But not so murky that a judge is going to side with this character. It's going to cost a small fortune in legal fees on both sides during the intermediate time though, and if facebook wants to IPO they'll have to settle because there is no way they are going to be able to with a 'cloud' like this. You can't possibly give stuff like this any credibility. It's right on par with SCO saying they own all of Linux, someone claiming to own the patent on hyperlinks and other outrageous claims. It's fodder for the tech-sensationalist press but nobody even remotely knowledgeable about this sort of thing will give better than 100:1 odds that this guy will prevail if the suit is going forward, it's an ordinary case of harassment using the legal system. It's just another bottom feeder trying his luck in the lottery called the American Justice System. Lawyer that take cases like this ought to be fined and disbarred for life, they give all the other lawyers a very bad name. Yuck.

shortformblog 16y ago

Something smells here. You don't forget about a contract with the guy running a company this big for seven years. Come on, as popular and overused as this site is? I refuse to believe that this guy has been sleeping under a rock and one day just stumbled upon a contract. And this is just unbelievable. It's sort of an implicit admission that the lawsuit's a money grab to him and nothing more: “If at some point in the future I start running Facebook, I guess I’m going to have to hire him to keep running the company,” Ceglia said. “I really don’t have much interest in it.”

CodeMage 16y ago
The contract part smells fishy, yes. But the admission is refreshingly honest.

_pius 16y ago

Lawyer HN'ers: does Doctrine of Laches apply here?