I wonder what will happen to him. As far as I'm aware he's still rich... 

Where are you reading this from? Id fancy a read. 

Is that a court statement from a judge?

Or is that the plantiff's "made for TV version of what they say happened"?

As far as I know, the jury concluded
1) Occulus did *not* misappropriate trade secrets.
2) The founder of Occulus *did* violate a non-disclosure agreement.

It does not appear that the court or the jury concurs with the text of the statement made in post #28810, although I don't claim to have read any of the docs provided by the court.

An attorney gets to tell their story of what they think happened to both the media and the court. It is always overstated so that if you go along halfway with their version of events, you would side with them.

The plantiffs team of attorney's is being paid with the idea they are supposed to win $2 billion for their client.

So they are going to have quite the "sales pitch".

/An alternate take. I claim no special knowledge. I am also often wrong. 

Imagine writing countless lines of code over multiple years... then you're told that you stole it.

Humans are weird huh? 

Apparently the case has been decided? I imagine there will be an appeal.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/02/oculus-execs-liable-for-500-million-in-zenimax-vr-trial/ 

If that's true, (which I doubt) it's pretty hilarious to picture one of the most well regarded programmers of our time frantically searching Google for how to wipe a hard drive like some guilty dad after clicking on a Shambler link 

if john carmack himself is googling "how to wipe hard drive secure" there's hope for all of us 

It's not like it's something you need to do everyday.

For that matter, most people would be surprised to find out that when they delete something from their computer it's not really gone at all. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_erasure


Also: did anybody wonder why they know his google history?