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http://m.ca.ign.com/articles/2017/0...ax-awarded-500-million-in-oculus-lawsuit?read
Sorry, I'm posting from my phone so I can't quote the article, but the link above has it all.
A jury sided with zenimax/Bethesda/id against Occulus/Facebook and John Carmack and has awarded damages of $500 million. Furthermore Zenimax is apparently going to seek an injunction to stop the sale of Occulus going forward, so we'll have to see what happens there.
While this is super shocking, I have to say that the allegations against John Carmack specifically have an air of reality to them. I read Masters of Doom back in August and a lot of the chapters about Carmack talk about how philosophically he doesn't believe in intellectual property. I can see him hating it at id following the sale to zenimax in 2010, a big company that would probably be all about that, and not believing that they owned his work.
Sorry, I'm posting from my phone so I can't quote the article, but the link above has it all.
A jury sided with zenimax/Bethesda/id against Occulus/Facebook and John Carmack and has awarded damages of $500 million. Furthermore Zenimax is apparently going to seek an injunction to stop the sale of Occulus going forward, so we'll have to see what happens there.
While this is super shocking, I have to say that the allegations against John Carmack specifically have an air of reality to them. I read Masters of Doom back in August and a lot of the chapters about Carmack talk about how philosophically he doesn't believe in intellectual property. I can see him hating it at id following the sale to zenimax in 2010, a big company that would probably be all about that, and not believing that they owned his work.