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orkut with stolen code
Filed in archive Entrepreneurship by tj on July 6, 2004
This more widely discussed Wired article digests the lawsuit from Affinity Engines. If you read the article it seems pretty obvious that something is wrong with the "super-speed one man show" that used by Google during the launch of Orkut.

"In its initial investigation, AEI (Affinity Engines) uncovered a total of nine unique software bugs ... in AEI's inCircle product that were also present in orkut.com," according to the lawsuit. "The presence of these bugs in both products is highly indicative of a common source code.... orkut.com contains software and source code copied, developed or derived from AEI's inCircle software or source code."

After graduating from Stanford in 2001, Buyukkokten and fellow graduate Tyler Ziemann built a social-networking service called Club Nexus, which they sold to Stanford for use by the university's undergraduates, according to the lawsuit. Club Nexus was a success, and Buyukkokten and Ziemann subsequently decided to form Affinity Engines and design a product for the Stanford alumni Association called inCircle.


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