People aren't mad because they get no money from the sale of the company, they're worried Facebook will ruin the vision of VR that the project aimed to achieve.

People aren't mad because they get no money from the sale of the company, they're worried Facebook will ruin the vision of VR that the project aimed to achieve. For example, if Valve had bought the company instead of Facebook, I'm pretty sure the reactions would be quite different than what we're seeing now.