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Comments on: Developer to Facebook: I got there first on friend-finding feature

A developer--who lists Microsoft among his affiliations on Facebook--says the social-networking site ought to give credit to those who come up with ideas that Facebook eventually implements.

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At least two points of verification needed
by dascha1 March 28, 2008 10:05 AM PDT
from credible experts are needed to establish a fact, and would be
judged as a legal argument in that case.
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...for example
by dascha1 March 28, 2008 10:13 AM PDT
To prove KERMIT and XMODEM were used, as a protocol, to
download a 40MB friendly pro-file in the late 80's, two
programmers would need to testify, or their customers, in terms of
supporting the accessibility aspects of it. That could be used
theoretically in this case...
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We were working on things like this 2 decades ago
by Manhattan2 March 28, 2008 1:42 PM PDT
All these recent startups seem to be reinventing the wheel. 2nd time and 3rd time in requires less up front money so sometimes these new attempts stick. And the Manhattan2 project our engineers moved on to applications that simply make more sense and seem to have a true intended goal. There doesnt seem to be anything all that new out there. We hope to change that one day.
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