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I got really excited thinking maybe Carmack would be set free, but he's at the center of it: ZeniMax contends Carmack was responsible for the breakthroughs tha
by aaron-lebo 10y ago
I got really excited thinking maybe Carmack would be set free, but he's at the center of it:
ZeniMax contends Carmack was responsible for the breakthroughs that transformed the Rift into a “powerful immersive virtual reality experience.” But after Carmack and Luckey agreed to use the Rift to showcase a specially configured version of Doom 3 at a Los Angeles convention in 2012, relations between the startups quickly soured, according to ZeniMax.
Instead of discussing how Oculus would compensate ZeniMax, Luckey and Oculus’s then-Chief Executive Officer Brendan Iribe allegedly became “increasingly evasive and uncooperative.” Next, they hired Carmack, who is accused of copying thousands of documents from his computer at ZeniMax.
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Carmack says he also offered to manufacture and sell a consumer headset similar to Luckey’s, but his idea fell flat with ZeniMax’s CEO Robert Altman, a former lawyer who had also been CEO of the adult entertainment website FriendFinder Networks Inc.
What a world we live in. Are there any indications to how this case may go?
- HugoDaniel 10y agoWasn't Doom 3 GPL'd ?
- douche 10y agoIt is, at least the version that is on the Id Software Github https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM-3/blob/master/COPYING.txt https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM-3/blob/master/COPYING.tx...