A judge has refused to dismiss ZeniMax Media’s claim that Oculus VR stole code and expertise from it when it hired famous coder John Carmack from its iD Software subsidiary.
Nick Wingfield, writing in The New York Times:
The lawsuit centers on help that John Carmack, then a ZeniMax employee and the designer behind iconic games like Doom and Quake, provided to Mr. Luckey as he was starting Oculus. Mr. Carmack later joined Oculus as its chief technology officer and ZeniMax contends that the assistance that Mr. Carmack gave to Mr. Luckey was illegal.
These things often look rather like well-timed retaliation; VentureBeat’s Jeff Grubb wrote about the details of this case last year.