Hi Sam - I sense you have a lot of anger here, and most of it is probably pretty valid. Money is a funny thing - when you've got a $600K mortgage, and a coup

Hi Sam - I sense you have a lot of anger here, and most of it is probably pretty valid. Money is a funny thing - when you've got a $600K mortgage, and a couple kids heading off to college with $45K/year tuition, and your company gets acquired by Zynga, and you discover you have $500K worth of options that will mature if you stick around for a couple years, or you can walk away from all that, and go get a job as a $120K developer somewhere - well, let's just say it's very tempting to justify selling virtual cows for a couple years. Understand there is a difference between working for a lame company, and a morally objectionable company. I could make an argument that what Zynga did with Tiny Towers/Dream Heights wasn't that much different than what Samsung did with it's Galaxy Tab/iPad. In both cases, these companies took another product as an example, and put their own spin on it. Neither of them is really "morally reprehensible" - but, if you want to do original work, or make the world a better place, there are probably other places you can work - and taking money out of the equations makes it that much easier.