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Re:All these Brilliant People at Facebook Make Me Sad by wisty on Sunday June 12, 2011 @08:01AM (#2646329)
I think the real cost is in the ~50,000 engineers* who are trying to clone Facebook, not in the ~300 who are actually working on it.

* Made up number.

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Re:All these Brilliant People at Facebook Make Me Sad by adrianN on Monday June 13, 2011 @03:04AM (#2648345)
If they think they can make any serious amount of money by trying to beat Facebook at their own game, they aren't so bright, I think.
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Re:All these Brilliant People at Facebook Make Me Sad by VMG on Monday June 13, 2011 @05:03AM (#2648518)
Assuming that number is very high, those people wouldn't necessarily be rocket surgeons if they weren't trying to clone FB
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