Ghost in the Facebook Machine?
July 16, 2007
Duncan Riley over at TechCrunch reminds us that prior to launching Facebook the young coder was hired by two other Harvard students to write the code for their own social-networking site called HarvardConnect.com. The pair have claimed, for the past three years, that Mark stole the code they hired him to write and used it to launch his own competing site ~ FaceBook. Turns out Cameron and Tyler, the two Harvard students, took the issue to the Havard honor code committee back in 2004 and an article was written about the dispute in The Stanford Daily. The US Federal Court has agreed to hear arguements later this month on the issue.
This isn’t a come lately pre-IPO lawsuit, it sounds like a real threat to the social networking powerhouse. Of course this threat can easily be resolved given the billions of dollars at stake.
