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I think the title of this article is misleading. This is an agreement between Id and ZeniMax not ZeniMax and Oculus. The implication of the article is that Carmack violated this agreement (he didn't sign this agreement Id's lawyers did) and didn't negotiate an exception for Oculus in the same fashion as he had for Armadillo Aerospace

Edit: For clarification I don't think Oculus "broke" this agreement, perhaps Carmack did though.

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The agreement is between ZeniMax/id and Palmer Luckey (id and ZeniMax are functionally the same entity here, so I think you might be confused on that part of it).

Palmer Luckey is the founder of Oculus and for all intents and purposes at the time this was signed, Luckey was Oculus.

The NDA says that it's an agreement between Id, on behalf of Zenimax, and Luckey (Occulus)

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