Re:The disappearing inventor
by yeukhon on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @07:17PM
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I am not sure if the professor is actually a founder, but more like the basis of the foundation. I don't know if the students ever paid their professor and the lab for the experience and idea. I would, honestly. Giving back a few million dollars back to the lab and give some equity to the professor, invite him to the board.
I suspect a few reasons:
1. The professor is not interested in the profit. He just loves what he does. Or he has no intention of taking any credit. When you are a famous inventor in your field you don't need anyone to back up your title.
2. He did get his fair share. Or he's working on other things with Oculus behind the scene, but not publicly acknowledged (which is weird).
3. Like most tweets the notice/rewteet count is often zero. We just don't hear about it. (Though in the case of Professor Bolas his website doesn't mention a thing about Oculus).
4. I don't know anything about FMX conference but maybe the professor wasn't invited?
5. Companies don't feel they are obligated to release everyone's name. In particular, they probably think basing on public works (published papers and blog posts) holds them no obligation to credit anyone.
But do we know if the founders ever credit the professor in public? I am not going to watch every interview, but my feeling is yes, at some point. I don't think anyone could say "they invented Oculus out of the blue".
This is also a private matter. Maybe they had problems with each other, or they settled this privately already ("I don't want any share", "don't mention my name", etc)
I suspect a few reasons:
1. The professor is not interested in the profit. He just loves what he does. Or he has no intention of taking any credit. When you are a famous inventor in your field you don't need anyone to back up your title.
2. He did get his fair share. Or he's working on other things with Oculus behind the scene, but not publicly acknowledged (which is weird).
3. Like most tweets the notice/rewteet count is often zero. We just don't hear about it. (Though in the case of Professor Bolas his website doesn't mention a thing about Oculus).
4. I don't know anything about FMX conference but maybe the professor wasn't invited?
5. Companies don't feel they are obligated to release everyone's name. In particular, they probably think basing on public works (published papers and blog posts) holds them no obligation to credit anyone.
But do we know if the founders ever credit the professor in public? I am not going to watch every interview, but my feeling is yes, at some point. I don't think anyone could say "they invented Oculus out of the blue".
This is also a private matter. Maybe they had problems with each other, or they settled this privately already ("I don't want any share", "don't mention my name", etc)