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It's the NDA that killed them.
by LandoCalrissian 10y ago
It's the NDA that killed them.
- gshulegaard 10y agoYeah...but that breach was originally made during the original Kickstarter in 2012. Aren't most statute of limitations for NDA breaches 3-4 years from original breach? But even if it's still within the statute of limitations I can't help but get the feeling Zenimax is just trying to cash in on the unlikely success of Oculus.
- elastic_church 10y agoThey sued in 2014 so the clock stops there.
- cpncrunch 10y agoIt looks like they sued in May 2014, and the acquisition closed in July 2014, so it looks like facebook just didn't do adequate due diligence.
- gshulegaard 10y agoHaving filed suit before the FB acquisition, I am a lot less perturbed. But a lot of the negative posturing from ZeniMax during the case still rubs me the wrong way.
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- openmosix 10y agoOr entirely possible they knew about it, dismissed it as "frivolous case" or factored it in the price paid.
- cpncrunch 10y agoWell, clearly it wasn't frivolous, so if they did think that then it would be evidence of them not doing proper due diligence. I guess it's possible they just didn't care. What's another half billion dollars to facebook?
- CamperBob2 10y ago"It's a speeding ticket. Just pay it." -- paraphrasing Zuckerberg's lawyer in The Social Network The interesting question is whether FB will indemnify Carmack. $150M is a hell of a speeding ticket.
- gcp 10y agoIt's not clear whether Carmack was actually the one to get that fine, sounds like it was Iribe.