In a letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, a lawyer for the Elon Musk-owned app reportedly said Meta had unlawfully misappropriated trade secrets
  • MyOpinion@lemm.eeEnglish
    742·
    1 year ago

    Sounds like this needs to be settled in a cage match fight!

    • FlanFlinger@lemmy.mlEnglish
      20·
      1 year ago

      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?

      • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        61·
        1 year ago

        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.

      • Rhoeri@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        1 year ago

        Exactly. That cage match bullshit is the lowest of the low in entertainment.

        • funnyletter@lemmy.oneEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Normally I’d agree but the prospect of two dudes I find morally repugnant trying to punch each other in the face has a certain appeal, since no matter how it goes at least one person I think deserves to get punched in the face is gonna get punched in the face.

          • Rhoeri@lemmy.worldEnglish
            31·
            1 year ago

            All well and good, until you realize that an event like that would only propel their fame/infamy even further at our expense.

            The best thing that could happen is everyone just stop caring about what they do. Let them make themselves obscure and irrelevant.

  • transmatrix@lemmy.worldEnglish
    45·
    1 year ago

    Wonder if Zuckerberg employed former Twitter devs on Thread work. Would be another hilarious example of Musk shooting himself in the foot.

    • Spaceman Spiff@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
      22·
      1 year ago

      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

    • heavyboots@lemmy.mlEnglish
      20·
      1 year ago

      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?

    • jon@lemmy.tfEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
    33·
    1 year ago

    I’d personally love to see Zuck and Musk have a “Who can afford better lawyers” war. That’d be a sight to see.

  • Phil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    1 year ago

    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

  • KelsonV@lemmy.worldEnglish
    231·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • Rannoch@lemm.eeEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • jon@lemmy.tfEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • carbotect@vlemmy.netEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    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

    • krackalot@vlemmy.netEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      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.