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>John Carmack, Oculus chief technology officer and founder of a company owned by ZeniMax, improved on the device using his knowledge from his previous work as a
by dvdcxn 10y ago
>John Carmack, Oculus chief technology officer and founder of a company owned by ZeniMax, improved on the device using his knowledge from his previous work as a ZeniMax employee.
That's a scary precedent...
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- xadhominemx 10y agoFortunately, juries do not create precedent.
- DannyBee 10y agoUnfortunately, every piece of caselaw in the united states is the same, and has found the same. IE This has been the law in every state forever. Even the most liberal of states here, like california, find the same way, because they let employers claim things that "relate, at the time of conception or development, to the employers business, or the employers actual or demonstrable anticipated research or development". Most engineers like to cut it off before the or, and like to believe their employer's business is very narrow. Courts read both very broadly.
- psyc 10y agoIt's also an outrageous insinuation that John Carmack, the father of the FPS, needed "knowledge gained from Zenimax" in order to make Oculus happen.
- ojr 10y agoI think you are undervaluing the codebase, if he used a codebase that was touched by 10 engineers with an average pay of 100k, the codebase cost 1 million to make in just one year, it would be hard for any engineer no matter how good to match the man hours of 10 engineers, Zenimax owned that knowledge and paid a high price for the value
- psyc 10y agoZenimax does not own anybody's knowledge. They own source code.
- sangnoir 10y ago> It's also an outrageous insinuation that John Carmack, the father of the FPS, needed "knowledge gained from Zenimax" in order to make Oculus happen He sold that knowledge to Zenimax for $100m and was on the clock. Perhaps he shouldn't have sold id Software if he wanted to freely use the IP. I'm reminded of those MySQL folk who cashed out to Sun/Oracle but still wanted to exploit on on the IP afterwards.
- samfisher83 10y agoHe did the work on company time. Thats a big no no. This is isn't some young kid, but a grown man.
- donatj 10y agoHe's surely salaried. How do you define company time in particular when there's no set you need to be here 9-5?