In a desperate move, ConnectU founders have sued Facebook. However, the judge today told ConnectU lawyers to revise their complaint by August 8 for re-evaluation. The suit claims that Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg stole Intellectual Property from ConnectU when they were suppose to build the website. Mark Zuckerberg was suppose to create the base software which they were to build upon. However, the suit claims that Zuckerberg never completed the software for ConnectU and instead opened a competing website called TheFaceBook.com before purchasing facebook.com, 3 months before ConnectU was founded as Harvard Connection.

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Personally, I think it's just ConnectU trying to find ways so that they can pull down a giant like Facebook to the ground just because they don't know how to get members of their own.

Any thoughts?

xboxrulz

Wasn't Facebook sold to Yahoo recently? I think that this whole thing is all about money, and that facebook.com is an awesome website. Even though they turned it from being a college-only site to one that allows anyone to join, I still know people who go on it all the time. There's no way that facebook is going to lose this case. If there was better evidence to nail the company in court, it would have been done already.

No Facebook turned down Yahoo like eons ago, that's why Yahoo has Yahoo 360. Facebook is an independent company of its own.

xboxrulz

anytime somebody comes up with something where they start making a lot of money, somebody is going to try and find some way to get money out of them....it is a given. So I think it is just some plot by a company to try and get money out of facebook, one of their competitors.