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I hope the guy wins. This would be the most awesome justice I can think of in my lifetime. Well, if only the plantiff actually deserved to win... but the defendant, I'm confident he deserves to lose.

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Whether or not Zuckerberg "deserves to be punished", are you really advocating that all other investors and employees are "acceptable collateral damage"?

This doesn't affect the employees, just the investors. You can't blaim Paul Ceglia for Zuckerberg trying to trick him out.

Facebook's employees have stock options, have they not? And Ceglia is not without his own tricks.

(None of the above should be misconstrued as liking Facebook or Zuckerberg; I'd be pretty happy to see the privacy nightmare that is Facebook disappear, even if some more-or-less innocent people lost money. I just don't think dislike of Zuckerberg alone is enough reason.)

Just because you were promised a part of "stolen" property doesn't mean that you are entitled to it afterwards when it gets returned. All their anger should go against Zuckerberg promising parts he wasn't entitled to, if this turns out to be true!

Let's see how this goes out :-)

I'd still rather have a million dollars than some righteous indignation.

What, you think this would make facebook go out of business? And yes, you invest in a company built on a stack of shit founded by a scoundrel - your fault, your problem.

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