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ZeniMax files lawsuit detailing claim to stake in Oculus VR technology
- angersock 12y agoSo, Carmack (cofounder/CTO of Id Software, later acquired by Zenimax) is basically being used by Zenimax as the justification for raiding Oculus. This is really troubling, least of all because a) Carmack built the fucking 3D games industry nearly by himself and b) used the freedom of his position to work on interesting new technology. There's got to be some way the rest of us can protest this, because this has really, really bad precedent for any of us that want to work on interesting projects for the hell of it. This is terrihorribad.
- adventured 12y agoStop buying ZeniMax games. There isn't any other great recourse in this situation (other than the much larger picture goal of fixing the patent & copyright systems). Carmack should have known better, and should have been a lot more careful. That isn't to say he's to blame for the shitty context of our intellectual property system. Once he sold id to ZeniMax, he was then working for a standard issue big company (as far as the gaming industry goes). I think he failed to adjust his behavior to that reality.