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I'm not sure Richard Garriott has any relevance to us anymore but he won't mind - he's just won USD$24M in a suit against NCSoft. From Edge Online:
More information.In 2008 Garriott announced plans to leave the Korea-based firm to pursue “new interests” having just returned from a trip to the International Space Station. However, he alleged that he was subsequently fired and manipulated into exercising his company stock options quickly while the market was severely depressed, costing him millions of dollars. Under the terms of an agreement with NCsoft, Garriott should have had ten years to exercise the options if he was fired.
While Garriott had asked for $47 million, a jury at a US District Court in Austin said that his $28 million award covered the profit that he said he’d lost, according to Statesman.com.