Facebook Is Being Sued By a Dead Man  Dutch programmer Joannes
Jozef Everardus van Der Meer is suing Facebook over its 'Like'
button. Companies get sued all the time! Why do we care? Well,
aside from having an A+ name, van Der Meer is actually... dead.
He passed away in 2004, just as Facebook was beginning to take
over the world. Why is he suing now?  Van Der Meer was the
founder of Surfbook, a social diary-type service where people
could share stuff with friends and like things with a 'like'
button. If that sounds a heckuva lot like some other site with
book in its name, well, you know why lawsuits are being tossed
around. The lawsuit claims that Facebook "bears a remarkable
resemblance, both in terms of its functionality and technical
implementation, to the personal web page diary that Van Der Meer
had invented years earlier."  Van Der Meer was awarded patents
in 1998 for Surfbook, patents that presumably include the Like
button. But Van Der Meer is dead so why does he care about
lawsuits? Well, Rembrandt S