Facebook's Zuckerberg Appeared in Court Today in ZeniMax Case, Here's What He Said

"If you guys were the inventors of Oculus, you'd have invented Oculus."

"The rest of my attention is back at the offices of Oculus, where my colleagues and I are doing things that no one in this room, including and especially your clients, are intellectually or creatively capable of doing."

Psh. I invented VR. Everyone else just copied me.

quote "We are highly confident that Oculus products are built on Oculus technology," the Facebook founder said. "The idea that Oculus products are based on someone else's technology is just wrong."

Well.... How can I say it... I mean, without sounding like a condescending jerk.... I know Zuckerberg won't come here to read some comments, but listen to me you damn noob (geez... I failed the "without sounding like a condescending jerk). Saying you're confident about your business practice is nowhere close to being a satisfyuing proof for a judge. You HAVE to back up that claim with evidences or proof. Not some good faith claims.

"Like most people in court....." ? Talk about a hilariously desperate plea to connect to the members of said court. LOL

You're a shit stain Zuckerberg, who is everything wrong with capitalism, in a single, disgusting, meat bag.

Technology nerd has never heard of Zenimax. Ok. Coming from a blatant thief and con artist, just call em on perjury and toss him in the block.

Last time the little turd stole other peoples' ideas it made him a billionaire. Why the hell wouldn't he try to do it again?

ZeniMax did not create the VR technology. Oculus was working on the technology long before Carmack was even in the picture. Just because Carmack had some ideas in his head and perhaps sketched some ideas on his computer related to some kind of VR tech, does not make those thoughts or ideas automatically ZeniMax's. If that was the case then people all over the industry and beyond would be affected. Corporations and companies do not own people, as much as they've tried to portray. ZeniMax is still butthurt over Carmack's decision to leave them, they should be ashamed of themselves and i hope the court hammers them severely.

After this case i hope the industry goes Union or something. Something needs to be done to protect the talented workers in the industry. Otherwise you'll have an industry full of early access games and Kickstarter's. No wonder people working in the industry say hell with it and start their own thing. Because of horrible companies like ZeniMax. Go ahead folks, keep shoveling them money. It's hilarious how people are defending them.

ZeniMax basically made their money off of modders who made free content for their games (Fallout 3, 4, Skyrim, etc.) Think about it. How does ZeniMax thank the fans and modders for their success? They don't! They could care less! They are the one's "stealing" and making a profit of other people's works (see the new remastered Skyrim as proof how they stole modder ideas) . If ZeniMax wins the case, then each and every person who made mods for Bethesda games should be compensated financially.

Of Course no one has ever heard of Zenimax, because The Elder Scrolls/ Skyrim was such a crappy game... (End Sarcasm) I fully believe that Suckerturd stole the foundations of the technology, but will digress that Oculus did make VR happen. And it's not like EVERYONE who's into tech doesn't know that Suckerturd stole the idea of facebook.

Zuckerburgler is stupid

"Like most people in the court, I've never even heard of ZeniMax before."

oooooooh

Oh you haven't heard of Zenimax before Zuck bro?

Well they are about to ream you for 2,000,000,000 frakkin dollars my friend, learn their name.

everyone being sued: friggin hell Zack you aren't helping us at all!

Zack: Yep.

zenimax is probbly on the righ foot here but it doesn't give them rights to hold this big ass lawsuit . people like carmak are hot headed people , copying files of his previous works from the system he was working on at zenimax or id software is very likely , because he thinks it was his own work and since zenimax doesn't want them or value them why i left them there , **** zenimax . even i would probably do such a thing but however he didnt expected this to happen . at the same time its shitty thing for zenimax to do this . now they can see the value of vr they want their toys back . i believe if they supported the vr in the first place carmak wouldn't leave id software

"Like most people in the court, I've never even heard of ZeniMax before."

This is not a valid defense against an accusation. It's just using rhetoric to deflect attention away from the charges against him. Saying you've never heard of someone is actually a personal attack. Not having heard of someone who claims to own technology in your product does not make you innocent of the charges against you and is in fact irrelevant.

I do not know if Oculus stole anything. I only wanted to add that this sentence is not a defense.

I also want to point out that even if Zenimax wins this suit, I don't think they'll be getting the $2 billion they want. That is an obscene sum. When Apple sued Samsung for infringing patents, they only asked for $1 billion, and the scope of that lawsuit was much bigger than this. There are far more Galaxy phones out there than Rifts which would be a few hundred thousand at most. The accusation of copying Apple's products extended far beyond borrowing a few books that they didn't return and some source code (which would only be a fraction of the total source code needed to make the OR). Stealing a few resources doesn't equate to the entire Oculus company and all of its technology including the Rift in its entirety is the property of Zenimax. If a company worth $2 billion stole a few things from a company, but 99% of their work was their own, that company is not entitled to $2 billion in damages. Get real.

This is likely going to get settled out of court and Zenimax would receive a much much smaller sum than they think they deserve. Maybe Zucks will get $200k just to get rid of these people.

Well theyll probably come to a settlement and Zenimax would walk away with a shit ton of money and some european hookers.

Thats how these things work. Trust me i know.

I don't believe him for a second, but if he doesn't know who ZeniMax is he better find out real quick. It's not a company that should be taken lightly. How is someone like Zuckerberg able to run one of the biggest companies in the world?

god what an idiot he is . he didnt know what zenmax was? lol

Good call by the author for the disclosure about Moonves. (Rare enough seeing honest journalism these days.)

Zuck is a tool. He has a history of trying to screw people out of their money - just look at the way he launched FB in the first place.

Fact is, at 19 and starting a company, he never had the business experience to even learn simple rules like "when you work for one company, they usually have documentation in place that anything created while on the clock at said company will be owned by said company. So, if you're going to be making a great new invention or writing a million dollar screenplay. Do it...OFF THE CLOCK."

Not at work and then download thousands of files to a thumb drive. SMH.

"Like most people in the court, I've never even heard of ZeniMax before."

That's probably how a lot of tech theft situations are, the victim isn't widely known :). Seriously though, that kind of statement is just out of place, it has no bearing.

I think Carmack dropped the ball on this one. Any technology that he may have created for Oculus while being an employee at ZeniMax, belongs to ZeniMax. Maybe he didn't created anything, who knows? It's going to be an interesting trial, that's for sure.

"I've never even heard of ZeniMax before."

That's ignorance at best, perjury at worst. What a complete liar.

Zuckerberg is an idiot to begin with... anyone that things people are going to where a helmet to talk about their ugly babies and pets is on something powerful.

irrelevant comments by irrelevant people for this case

now if zenimax wins he looks like a idiot

Yep, definitely not buying that you didn't hear of ZeniMax before, pure B.S.