[wallflower]

As commented in another thread, it would be ludicrous for Microsoft, Digital Sky Technologies et al. to allow Mr. Ceglia a seat on Facebook's board. They will explore and deploy every legal option to avoid this. It is not so ludicrous for investment bankers to engineer a tax-minimal FU-style lifestyle for Mr. Ceglia by endowing a non-profit for some pet interest of his choice and paying him handsomely.

If Mr. Ceglia truly wants ownership of Facebook, he is going to have to fight for years. If he wants enough money for a private jet, he just might get it. As will his lawyers.

This could be the most lucrative transaction in the history of Craigslist.

And the twist is if Ceglia truly did have this contract with Zuckerberg, it leaves the ConnectU guys in a particular interesting situation (as the Facebook idea was being worked on way before ConnectU).

[codexon]

And the twist is if Ceglia truly did have this contract with Zuckerberg, it leaves the ConnectU guys in a particular interesting situation.

No it doesn't. The issue was never "who thought of Facebook first". All of this was when Myspace was at it's peak. Everyone had the idea to do a Myspace competitor.

The issue is Zuckerberg taking people's money and making false commitments by accepting a job and lying to the ConnectU guys that he was still working on it to delay them as much as he could.

[pyre]

  > No it doesn't. The issue was never "who thought of
  > Facebook first". All of this was when Myspace was at
  > it's peak. Everyone had the idea to do a Myspace
  > competitor.

Really? MySpace was at its peak at the end of 2003/beginning of 2004? And everyone at that time was trying to build a 'MySpace competitor?'