Just for the anonymous record... I came up with the design for Google Wave, it was a protocol I was working on. I won&#x27;t name names but I met someone whose name rhymes with Cint Verf at a charity dinner and in a stupid attempt to impress him hoping he&#x27;d want to do business described every aspect of the exact product they came out with over a series of emails 8 months before Google published Wave.<p>Just to include me in the development somehow would have meant so much to me, instead I feel stabbed in the back by someone who was a hero to me. It&#x27;s my fault because I foolishly told him and I didn&#x27;t publish my code first but that&#x27;s still how I feel.