Lurker Posted March 19, 2012 Report Share Posted March 19, 2012 yep, as the tittle said, actually its been awhile, and I just wonder if you guys @ GISarea, besides lurking and sharing on GIS Stuff, notice this war :grin: As we predicted last month, Yahoo has decided to move forward and sue Facebook over claims that Facebook is infringing on a wide range of things from a news feed, messaging, social network, privacy technology and pretty much everything else. This absolutely massive complaint basically claims “Facebook’s entire social network model, which allows users to create profile for and connect with, among other things, persons and businesses, is based on Yahoo’s patented social networking technology.” Basically, Yahoo basically owns the entire Facebook site technology, and Facebook needs to pay up immediately. This comes at a horrible time for Facebook as they attempt to grow their advertising base as they plan going public. With this possible lawsuit, that says nothing short that Facebook’s entire business plan and technology is based on Yahoo patents, it means that Facebook would face a hard time going public or continuing to operate as long as they were facing this shadow. In fact in the lawsuit, they are asking for triple damages, which would mean tens of billions of dollars, or require Facebook to stop using their patents, effectively shutting the site down. Yahoo sued Google similarly, before they went public, claiming Yahoo was infringing on their patents. That results in Yahoo receiving almost $1.5M in stock from Google. The reason they are filing a lawsuit now, is pretty much hoping to have the same scenario applied to them, but probably 10 times more money. lets the war begin :evil: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dupaa Posted June 16, 2012 Report Share Posted June 16, 2012 The only thing one coul say is "ridiculous"... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arcsump Posted July 16, 2012 Report Share Posted July 16, 2012 BITCH PLEASE. they can't even make their interface as light as facebook's P.S. I hope that somebody from YAHOO reads this post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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