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> It's also an outrageous insinuation that John Carmack, the father of the FPS, needed "knowledge gained from Zenimax" in order to make Oculus happen

He sold that knowledge to Zenimax for $100m and was on the clock. Perhaps he shouldn't have sold id Software if he wanted to freely use the IP. I'm reminded of those MySQL folk who cashed out to Sun/Oracle but still wanted to exploit on on the IP afterwards.




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