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Someone is saying this code was stolen: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8227225 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8227225

yardie 12y ago
If that is the case it should be easy enough to prove in court. Or is it going to be more of the early Facebook, Twitter, Youtube days. Where everyone that played a bit part all of the sudden had great big titles in the founding of the companies. I'm not sure what what happened but it could also be equally said this guy's code wasn't any good, wasn't used, and so the founders didn't want to pay for it. And the Paypal resolution dispute seems to agree. Something was exchanged but not everyone was happy with what was received.
- skinnymuch 12y ago
  Were there a number of people saying they did a lot for Twitter? In my opinion from what I've read, Noah Glass, one of the co-founders, really did get screwed over and seemed to have done a lot with his short time at Twitter.
  - yardie 12y ago
    I was thinking more of the Winklevii. Basically, people that play a small role early on then leave (or jettisoned) only to come back claiming they were the idea/backbone/major contributor. I totally agree Glass got screwed. Many years ago I wrote the code for an online store. I outsourced the payment processing and photo upload functions. If the store somehow managed to grow to Amazon size who knows what those 2 developers would say. To me, they played a very small, but essential, role.
    - skinnymuch 12y ago
      I see. Did you pay the outsourced coders fairly? I'm sure they would say something but to me that is different from the Winklevii. I do think because FB was able to explode so much and Zuckerberg did mislead them a bit, them receiving what they did, $60M in stock (though now it would be much higher) and some cash seems fair. Obviously they barely did anything for FB and they wouldn't have likely made any big website on their own. But because of Zuckerberg's actions and because FB did become as big as it did, I find what they ended up getting to be fair. Do you not think so? But hah originally I thought you were including Noah Glass in your assessment and was either going to inquire about why because his story is so incredibly sad to me.
- jparkside 12y ago
  Your assessment was correct, read our response here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8242361 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8242361

yardie 12y ago

If that is the case it should be easy enough to prove in court. Or is it going to be more of the early Facebook, Twitter, Youtube days. Where everyone that played a bit part all of the sudden had great big titles in the founding of the companies. I'm not sure what what happened but it could also be equally said this guy's code wasn't any good, wasn't used, and so the founders didn't want to pay for it. And the Paypal resolution dispute seems to agree. Something was exchanged but not everyone was happy with what was received.

skinnymuch 12y ago
Were there a number of people saying they did a lot for Twitter? In my opinion from what I've read, Noah Glass, one of the co-founders, really did get screwed over and seemed to have done a lot with his short time at Twitter.
- yardie 12y ago
  I was thinking more of the Winklevii. Basically, people that play a small role early on then leave (or jettisoned) only to come back claiming they were the idea/backbone/major contributor. I totally agree Glass got screwed. Many years ago I wrote the code for an online store. I outsourced the payment processing and photo upload functions. If the store somehow managed to grow to Amazon size who knows what those 2 developers would say. To me, they played a very small, but essential, role.
  - skinnymuch 12y ago
    I see. Did you pay the outsourced coders fairly? I'm sure they would say something but to me that is different from the Winklevii. I do think because FB was able to explode so much and Zuckerberg did mislead them a bit, them receiving what they did, $60M in stock (though now it would be much higher) and some cash seems fair. Obviously they barely did anything for FB and they wouldn't have likely made any big website on their own. But because of Zuckerberg's actions and because FB did become as big as it did, I find what they ended up getting to be fair. Do you not think so? But hah originally I thought you were including Noah Glass in your assessment and was either going to inquire about why because his story is so incredibly sad to me.
jparkside 12y ago
Your assessment was correct, read our response here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8242361 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8242361