Facebook is set for a potentially explosive legal case after the company was accused of stealing proprietary technology. In a California district court, a judge has laid out a detailed timeline regarding the upcoming legal battle between Facebook and UK data center company BladeRoom over allegations that the social network stole the latter's server and rack technology for use in its own Open Compute Project. BladeRoom claims that the company intentionally stole and used its blueprints for server warehouses. Specifically, Facebook is being accused of using the company's modular data center layouts and designs for server racks and then repackaging them…
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