Articles like this are completely useless. It's about a lawsuit that hasn't got a snowballs chance in hell of succeeding and what would happen if that lawsuit would succeed and the parties involved would not be at each others throats in a countersuit.

It's worse than speculative.

It there is one thing you should take home from this then it is that you should make sure that the origins of your start-up should be impeccable on the off-chance that one day you might be successful. For sure there will be a whole pile of bottom feeders coming after you anyway but if you make their lives easier by doing shady stuff you will have more trouble to contend with.

Something smells here. You don't forget about a contract with the guy running a company this big for seven years. Come on, as popular and overused as this site is? I refuse to believe that this guy has been sleeping under a rock and one day just stumbled upon a contract.

And this is just unbelievable. It's sort of an implicit admission that the lawsuit's a money grab to him and nothing more:

“If at some point in the future I start running Facebook, I guess I’m going to have to hire him to keep running the company,” Ceglia said. “I really don’t have much interest in it.”

Lawyer HN'ers: does Doctrine of Laches apply here?

Why read fiction when we have this? I guess in fiction things have to make sense at some level.