I saw this movie recently on my flight to LA, and was disgusted by the principles of Facebook's founders. They screwed over everybody, and even turned on themselves. Stealing code and using student photos without consent, says a lot about how they really do feel about their user base and privacy.
Kyle...you know I love you...so please understand where I am coming from with this...
I am a programmer. and when I code something, even tho it is super close to the idea someone else had, that is my code. You have to ask yourself: what is intellectual property? Opinions differ. Can one collander maker sue another because their collanders do the same thing? Can they say they "stole" the idea? Then one collandar maker will say: well you have the slotted openings and we have round ones. We think the round ones work better, so that is really our idea.
We have to remember that at the time facebook was "invented" myspace already existed. And myspace and facebook exists now and google just came out with their own social networking site. Why isnt Google being sued for stealing zuckerbergs intellectual property? The idea the Zuckerberg had was to make facebook a "facebook" in the sense of the Harvard Facebook type thing, just electronic. Like we in highschool have our yearbooks. That was his idea. NOT the social networking site idea, cause as I said it had already been done (myspace among several others). The Winklevosses said he stole their idea because they were doing a "harvard dating site" and elements of facebook have relationship type slants. But, facebook is not a romantic matching site. The winklevosses should be suing eHarmony for that matter. That is closer to their idea.
Like I said, there are a multitude of opinions. And even i go back and forth on what he did or didnt do. But keep in mind, the winklevosses made 65 million dollars (+), for doing nothing but filing a lawsuit. They literally did none of the work to code it, maintain it, upgrade it etc...
As far as the arguments between Eduardo and Mark, that was sad to me. That the whole thing kind of blew up on them. But that is what happened...it BLEW UP. within two years it was the biggest thing going. Not many of us could go from complete obscurity to the hottest ticket anywhere without having some relationships implode (if we were that immature and didnt know what real relationships were yet). i watch Eduardo's facebook page, cause he does have one ;) , to see if he ever mentions a reconciliation with zuckerberg. Not really...not yet.
