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Oh, how I wish Carmack and Oculus wouldn't have sold out to a company like Facebook. I really don't think they needed the money that fast, yet it seemed like th
by higherpurpose 12y ago
Oh, how I wish Carmack and Oculus wouldn't have sold out to a company like Facebook. I really don't think they needed the money that fast, yet it seemed like they sold to the first company that would offer them $2 billion, even if there are few companies that would've been worse than Facebook. I still believe Marc Andreessen, the Oculus majority holder and Facebook board member, forced the decision more than anything else.
The rest of the team feels like they were duped into the deal, and then fed some BS that they then told everyone else, too, about how much they "needed" the deal and how great Facebook is going to be for them.
- readerrrr 12y agoDo you have any arguments, or are you just saying you personally don't like the deal?
- Karunamon 12y agoI can think of a lot worse companies than Facebook they could have been picked up by. Google, for one. Then, Oculus as we know it would have been absorbed and we'd have never heard anything from the people involved again. Am I the only person on Hacker News that doesn't have this pathological hate of FB?
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- thefreeman 12y agoLiterally nothing in this article has anything to do with Facebook. Do you just post this on any thread related to the Oculus?