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anyone remember this brouhaha a decade ago where Orkut was accused of stealing source code to get off the ground? including bugs?

http://archive.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2004/06/64046




It was more a copyright dispute than a theft. The coders took their own code to a new company. Zuckerberg did the same thing to start Facebook.




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