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Re:Facebook Ordered to Pay $500M in Oculus Lawsuit by cma on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @10:20PM (#13547834)
I believe they settled it by paying some royalties on Commander Keen.

A lot of times Carmack just wants to get shit done. At Oculus he has worked on both the Minecraft code and the Netflix code both for VR clients, both (I believe, I know for sure for Minecraft at least from some talks) with MS and Netflix retaining full ownership of the code.

Maybe they have some "off the record" agreements to avoid anti-trust--Minecraft still hasn't officially come to Vive.

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Re:Facebook Ordered to Pay $500M in Oculus Lawsuit by Bamafan on Thursday February 02, 2017 @12:02AM (#13548248)
They also made a number of "free" games that were published by SoftDisk. This was all pre-modern software era though. If that happened today, it would end up very similarly to how the Occulus case ended up.
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