Second, whether or not there's anything to the ConnectU case, Facebook is a commercialized version of HarvardConnection.
So, the model seems to be:
1. (get someone else to) Create something you need.
2. Take it.
3. Sell it.
Either (a) Zuckerberg is a douchebag who stole the site, or (b) the ConnectU folks are douchebags who want to mooch off of Zuckerberg's idea. The morals of these potential stories seem to be:
a) Douchebags will steal from you.
b) Douchebags will try to mooch off of you.
a+b) Don't associate with douchebags. (And if you do,
then at least make sure to get rich and win the
lawsuit.)
That's not quite true.
First of all, not all of his "friends" agree that Z "made" rather than "stole" Facebook. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConnectU
Second, whether or not there's anything to the ConnectU case, Facebook is a commercialized version of HarvardConnection.
So, the model seems to be:
Either (a) Zuckerberg is a douchebag who stole the site, or (b) the ConnectU folks are douchebags who want to mooch off of Zuckerberg's idea. The morals of these potential stories seem to be: