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July
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2009
CONFIDENTIAL -FILED UNDER SEALPURSUANT
TO
PROTECTIVE
ORDER
The HonorableLeonard
P.
StarkMagistrate JudgeU.S.DistrictCourt
for
the District
of
Delaware
U.S
.Courthouse
844
N.
King
StreetWilmington,
DE
19801-3556
Re:
Leader Teclmologies,
Inc.v. Facebook.,
Inc"
C.
A.
No.
08
-862-JJFfLPSlDearJudge
Stark:
Pbilip
A.
Rovner
Partner
pI"Ovner@potterander
so
o.com
(302) 984-6140 Direct Phone (302)
65&·1192
Fax
PUBLIC
VERSION
7130109
Pursuant
to
the Court'sinstruction,LeaderTechnologies(,'Leader") submits
this
letterbrief
to
request the Court
to
compel Facehook
to
produceits source code and relevant documents
in
response to Leader'sdiscovery requests.Based
on
the
parties'lastconference call with Your
Honor
,Leader completed its
review
of
the limitedamount
of
source code
that
Facebookmadeavailable.
[t
leamedthe following:
1.
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.
3.
Facebook Should
Be
Ordered
to Produce
its
Entire
Source CodeRepository
AfterLeader'sreview
of
the selected portions
of
heFaccbook source code,
it
isnow
apparent
that
811
ofthe source
code
must
be
made
availableto
complete a meaningful
review.
(See
Declaration
of
Dr.
Giovauni Vigna
in
Support
of
Leader'sLetter
Brief~e
Production
of
Documents and
Source Code,
attached
heretoas Exhibit
A).
~
 
The Honorable Leonard P.StarkJuly23, 2009
Page
2
The parties
cannot continue
down the
same
path
fOT
future
Soutce
code reviews,
asit
will
cause
undue
delay
and
burden
to
both
IfFaccbookselect
of
the
source
code
in
a
E~~
fashic'n
Specifica1
1
y,
during
the
hearing
on
May
,
counsel
for
.liacebook
represented
to
the
Court
that
I
A
module
is
an
independent
piece
of
code
which
foons
part
of
a
lar
ger
program.
In
terms
of
sourcecode,typicalJy,
each
individual
file
is
considered
a
separate
module
;
In
order for the
Jarger
program
tooperate, certain
functionsthat
are
contained
within
onemodule
will
he
csllcd
OJ
accessed
by another
module
in
order
to
perfoon
a
desired
operation.
2
The
production
of
source
codeis
vital to understanding
·
the
operation
of
software
and
there
have
been
numerous
cases
in
the
District
of
Delaware
in
which
the
Court ordered
the production
of
the
source
code
repository.
See
elf
Liccnsing.
LLC
v.
Agere Systems
Inc.,
No.
07-170-JJF,
2009
WL
187823(D.De!. Jan.
23,2009)
;Adobe Systems, Inc. v. Macromeilla,me.,No. 00-743- JJF,2001 WL 1414843 (D.De!. Nov.
OS,
2001);Oracle
Corp
.v.ParallelNetworks,Ll.P, 588 F
.S
upp.2rl549, 565-66(D. De!.2008)
 
The Honorable Leonard
P.
Stark
July
23,2009Page3source
code
repository.
Faccbook Should Be
Ordered
to
Produce aHierdrchical
Map
orits
Soune
Code.
In
addition to the fullsourcecoderepository.Leaderrequiresa hierarchicalm
ap
of
thesource
code
in
order
to
efficiently andeffective
lycomp
lete
its
review.
During
theCourt orderedmeet
and
conferbetween
3
Even Facebook's counsel.
Mr.
Weinstein,
who
was
incharge
of
producing
Facebook's
sourcecode,
admitted
during
a
meetandconfer
on
July21,2009
that
it
ishighly unlikely
that
facebook
's source code exceeded 100
ME.
For reference,a single CDholds 700
J\ItB
of
data. Thus) Facebook'sentire source
code
could
fit
on
asingle
CD
ten
times over,
or
easily
on
a
vast
majority
of
availab
le
portable flash drives.
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Jason Bentley

I can't imagine they're really going to force Facebook to open up it's sourcecode.

reply03 / 08 / 2011
Jason Bentley

I can't imagine they're really going to force Facebook to open up it's sourcecode.

reply08 / 01 / 2009
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