Facebook / ConnectU

According to the New York Times (and commented on by Techcrunch) Facebook is about to settle the ConnectU litigation. The litigation arises out of allegations that Mark Zuckerberg stole ConnectU's ideas (source code, business plan and design) back in 2003 - Zuckerberg was at college with the founders of ConnectU and worked for it before starting Facebook.

Regardless of the truth of the allegations, it is a distraction that Facebook doesn't need. If the action can be settled on reasonable terms then I would think that Facebook should do all it can to settle.