If Harvard doesn't have a record of the damaging emails, couldn't it just be because they've been deleted?
Barring the mushroom conviction, Zuckerberg has an even greater (albiet shorter) history of alleged shady dealings as Ceglia. I figure the two parties about equal in terms of credibility.
Fred's argument is filled with hypocrisy. It's akin to saying VCs kill innovation because they make it harder for bootstrapping companies to survive.
If Lodsys is a patent troll, then Fred is an equity troll. When Lodsys purchased the patent, the inventor got PAID. When investors purchase stock in a company, the founders (and in the case of an IPO or acquisition, the VC's) get PAID.
This is virtually the same principle.
Besides, Lodsys "is seeking 0.575% of US revenue over for the period of the notice letter to the expiration of the patent, plus applicable past usage." That's hardly enough to kill innovation.
If CL spam is responsible their phenomenal growth, then more power to them. It wouldn't work if they didn't have a better solution to a huge market need.
There is a slightly steeper learning curve, but the author does a great job of not assuming that you know Ruby. The instructions will show how to build a "twitter-like" application.