Twitter threatens to sue Meta over Threads app – report
In a letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, a lawyer for the Elon Musk-owned app reportedly said Meta had unlawfully misappropriated trade secrets
Hope they bankrupt each other.
In the teeth!!
Sounds like this needs to be settled in a cage match fight!
They're insufferable enough cunts as it is, can you imagine what they'd be like after the ego massage of winning a cage fight?
One of them would be only slightly worse, but the loser would be better by a larger delta.
What "ego massage"? Zuckerberg would mop the floor with Musk and they both know that. One is a 39 and has actually won martial arts tournaments, the other one is 52 and looks like he would pant after walking to the ring.
Mama says no
The TrAdE sEcReT - short form messages on a timeline
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Class action lawsuit from the Morse code operators union incoming..
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Fucking beans
Wonder if Zuckerberg employed former Twitter devs on Thread work. Would be another hilarious example of Musk shooting himself in the foot.
That's pretty likely, given how many have left in the past year, and it's possibly a very big problem for Meta. Apple in their early days infamously asked candidates if they were "virgins". It was not (as Hollywood likes to portray) about their sexual history, but whether they had ever touched or seen IBM's proprietary code. Apple needed to do a clean-room development and implementation of the same thing. They knew IBM would sic the lawyers on them, and they had to prove they did it using nothing but publicly available info.
The article has absolutely no detail on what these trade secrets might be, or if they will be upheld in court, so we can only speculate. But if these really are trade secrets, and Meta poached them, then we could be talking serious damages or even an injunction.
But knowing the courts, this won't actually be decided for years and it won't even matter by then
Judge: And what forms of inducement did he use to hire them away?
Elon: Uh, well your honor, after I fired them all, he offered them stable employment?
Per the article Meta claims no ex-Twitter employees worked on Threads.
They've probably served as "consultants" at the bare minimum though
Probably, it'd be pretty stupid not to put his ex-Twitter engineers on the Threads projects. But it's entirely legal to have your employees work on something close to what they did at their last job. I'd be very, very surprised if Meta knowingly allowed stolen IP to be incorporated into their new product, Musk needs to provide some evidence to back his claims.
I'd personally love to see Zuck and Musk have a "Who can afford better lawyers" war. That'd be a sight to see.
I'm sure the lawyers would love it too.
Is Musk gonna pay the lawyers tho because he's sure as shit not paying anyone else.
He'll just rate-limit his legal correspondence.
This is so Elon playbook , send in the lawyers and see what happens. TBH these games are irreverent to normal people, lets de-fed from any corporate instance and just build a better community
It’s unclear what evidence Twitter has that former employees who now work at Meta continue to have access to Twitter intellectual property or trade secrets. Twitter responded to a request for comment with an automated email of a poop emoji.
Or for once the poop emoji is an accurate representation of the "evidence."
Stopped clock and all that.
Imagine if other similar formats sued each other like this - one forum site suing another because they both use text-based forum communication. I'm so tired of facebook/meta/twitter/etc.
What "trade secrets" does he claim were stolen? Obviously ex-Twitter employees who move to Meta know their tech stack. But there's not a chance that their codebases are compatible so even if someone directly carried cover over from Twitter to a new job at Meta, it's not like it would be useful.
And if he thinks current Meta employees are still accessing Twitter IP/code/etc, Elon probably needs to first look internally and maybe not fire entire security & compliance teams.
Hopefully Threads can tank all the lawsuits from Twitter, so that Mastodon can operate in peace lol.
I wonder tho, how much Threads has copied from Mastodon
That would be fine with me if they had no effect on me and lived in a vacuum. Which I propose we put them in. The vacuum of space or a vacuum tube at the bottom of the ocean, either works for me.
Someone seems butt hurt 😂
Let them cook!
Ahhh, now this is funny. Honestly made my day brighter.
FreezePeach!
Settle it in The Colosseum boys!
Flight flight flight flight
This is so awesome 😂
Do it, let them mutually decide to give all their money to lawyers and sue each other into bankruptcy for launching the same tired products nobody wants.
The world will be so bunch better a place when everyone stops giving a fuck about what super rich people do.
kicking back, and opening a bag of popcorn
As much as I'd love to see billionaires dragging each other through the mud and kicking each other's heads, I'm not that optimistic.
That's why the best option is to lock them in a room and forget the keys.
Why is Meta being sued by Twitter for imitating its functionality but Mastodon isn't? Are open source developers more allowed to infringe on Twitter's "trade secrets" than proprietary devs?
No one is infringing any trade secrets meta Twitter or Mastodon.
Elon is posturing.
@linearchaos the nervous signs started with the CEO tweet this morning, don’t believe we’ve seen the last.