Google, parent company of orkut.com, is being sued by social networking company Affinity Engines over source code they claim was illegally taken from them by Orkut Buyukkokten.
Buyukkokten co-founded Affinity Engines with Tyler Ziemann after they graduated from Stanford in 2001 in order to develop social networking software inCircle. Ziemann claims that when Buyukkokten joined Google he agreed not to develop any competing social networking software, and that by appropriating the code he helped to bring orkut.com quickly and unfairly to market.
According to Wired News:
In addition to nearly identical text found in similar features in orkut.com and Affinity Engine's social-networking products, the suit cited several identical software problems in each company's service.
"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."
The suit, filed on May 25 in Santa Clara Superior Court, is seeking unspecified damages and royalties.
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Posted at 8:15PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Talha