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FB asked for and received a waiver from the SEC for their restricted stock plan: http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2008/tc200...

Basically since the restricted stock holders are employees that didn't directly invest money they're not being considered as counting against the 499 limit (which to me seems perfectly fair).




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