Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Facebook: The Social Network Movie
Who owns an idea? The people who came up with it, the person who put up
the money to get it going, the man who wrote the software that made it
happen. Mark Zuckerberg's little dorm room experiment crashed the
Harvard Network's Mainframe on its first night and went on to make him a
multimillionaire--the next Bill Gates? The movie makes him look like an
arrogant, selfish, self-serving nerd with no social skills but a
brilliant mind for coding software. The movie inter-cuts scenes from the
rise of Facebook with Legal Discovery around a board room table
involving the two major law suits filed over the rise of Facebook. Any
intellectual property that suddenly rises exponentially in value is
likely to attract those who claim they should share in the rewards but
as Zuckerberg tells the opposing lawyer since he is now rich enough to
buy most of Harvard the lawyer only deserves his partial attention.
the money to get it going, the man who wrote the software that made it
happen. Mark Zuckerberg's little dorm room experiment crashed the
Harvard Network's Mainframe on its first night and went on to make him a
multimillionaire--the next Bill Gates? The movie makes him look like an
arrogant, selfish, self-serving nerd with no social skills but a
brilliant mind for coding software. The movie inter-cuts scenes from the
rise of Facebook with Legal Discovery around a board room table
involving the two major law suits filed over the rise of Facebook. Any
intellectual property that suddenly rises exponentially in value is
likely to attract those who claim they should share in the rewards but
as Zuckerberg tells the opposing lawyer since he is now rich enough to
buy most of Harvard the lawyer only deserves his partial attention.