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Re:Facebook Ordered to Pay $500M in Oculus Lawsuit by leggomylibro on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @05:34PM (#13546071)
Some alarm bells probably did go off, but they were probably silenced fairly quickly with something along the lines of, "but this is really cool and I want to work on it. Plus, it's not like my employer is actively working on a VR that I'd be competing with."

And at the end of the day, Carmack isn't the one who is out $500M, is he?

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Re:Facebook Ordered to Pay $500M in Oculus Lawsuit by jMyles on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @05:50PM (#13546203)
In retrospect, he came out smelling like roses.
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Re:Facebook Ordered to Pay $500M in Oculus Lawsuit by spatulon on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @06:03PM (#13546307)
He is personally out $150m, according to the article.
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Re:Facebook Ordered to Pay $500M in Oculus Lawsuit by teej on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @06:12PM (#13546384)
The Variety article says Carmack but the TechCrunch article says Iribe. I'm having trouble finding the actual source.
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Re:Facebook Ordered to Pay $500M in Oculus Lawsuit by k-t on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @09:09PM (#13547473)
The court documents say Iribe.

Carmack took his emails with him on a USB stick (which Zenimax's lawyer called "10,000 confidential documents") but the jury didn't award any damages for that.

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Re:Facebook Ordered to Pay $500M in Oculus Lawsuit by Idontagree on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @06:10PM (#13546374)
That seems like a lot, I didn't think he was worth that much, maybe I'm undervaluing his net worth. Is there a value for that anywhere?
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Re:Facebook Ordered to Pay $500M in Oculus Lawsuit by gpderetta on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @07:19PM (#13546832)
Well, he had to stop playing with rockets as he was running out of FU money...
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Re:Facebook Ordered to Pay $500M in Oculus Lawsuit by stupidcar on Thursday February 02, 2017 @05:49AM (#13549597)
He presumably got a sizeable chunk of Oculus shares when he joined as CTO, and those would have been converted to a valuable amount of Facebook equity during the $3bn buyout.

Kind of irrelevant though, as the article is wrong, and it's actually Luckey and Iribe who are personally liable, and not Carmack.

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