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Re: Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads [pdf]

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> Twitter knows that these employees previously worked at Twitter; that these employees had and continue to have access to Twitter’s trade secrets [...] This sentence is clearly trying to establish liability by accusing Meta of wilful infringement of Twitter’s rights (i.e. it acted in full knowledge of these fact, even though they may lead to violation of the employees’ restrictive covenants, etc.), as evidenced by t…

> As this is supposedly from such a large law firm

Is it the same law firm that went with the 'offering to buy twitter and signing a purchase agreement was just a prank bro' defence?

If you find yourself standing up in court making the prank bro argument, then I hope the amount of money you got was a fair price for your dignity.

Re: Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads [pdf]

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I wouldn’t be surprised if part of Zuck’s goal with the Spider-Man meme was to prod Elon directly into this lawsuit which will surely go nowhere, cost pocket change to Meta, and push Twitter that much closer to bankruptcy. I don’t care much for either of these guys but you gotta love seeing a guy’s own toxic personality traits used against him. Looks like Zuck’s jiu jitsu training is paying off after all!

When is the Elon/Zucc fight happening, anyways?

It's not. Musks mother and father showed their displeasure in the idea and now he won't do it. No, I'm not being facetious.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/elon-musk-mother...

Re: Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads [pdf]

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Twitter doesn't have a single trade secret or important technology worth stealing. Replicating it is a social problem, not a technical one.

Especially for Meta that runs far more popular apps

Re: Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads [pdf]

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Oh good grief. This is fair game, Mr. Musk. Scaling aside, Twitter is as simple an application as you could imagine.

The product is (deceptively) simple but the sheer scale makes it a very complex system.

... because Meta's engineers know nothing about scale and are relying on Twitter's ex-engineers to help out?

Re: Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads [pdf]

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Didn't Twitter open source a large portion of the code base? Seems like that isn't going to help their case.

No, I would definitely not call that a "large portion".

Re: Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads [pdf]

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post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wouldn’t be surprised if part of Zuck’s goal with the Spider-Man meme was to prod Elon directly into this lawsuit which will surely go nowhere, cost pocket change to Meta, and push Twitter that much closer to bankruptcy. I don’t care much for either of these guys but you gotta love seeing a guy’s own toxic personality traits used against him. Looks like Zuck’s jiu jitsu training is paying off after all!

When is the Elon/Zucc fight happening, anyways?

Right now in a lawsuit, apparently!

I think that the Elon/Zucc fight thing makes them both look ridiculous and childish and I've been enjoying that aspect of it (it doesn't matter even a little who wins, they both lose). This lawsuit strikes me the same way.

Re: Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads [pdf]

#59

Isn't Threads just Instagram with optional text posts? Same old proprietary obfuscated mess, locked garden, meh, no thanks.

> locked garden Not to defend Meta, but this isn't true. Meta is embracing the fediverse protocol with Threads.

Meta mentioned ActivityPub/Fediverse support but I'll believe it when I see it.

Maybe it's the cynic in me but I think Meta will just implement a tiny portion of the spec that benefits them (importing posts from Mastodon?) and then stall there.

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