Fancy Store-Bought Dirt

An Open Letter to Hasbro

Some time in the last 24 hours you did to me the moral equivalent of knocking over a game board -- actually 11 game boards. You had no need to do this.

I will readily admit that Scrabulous violated your IP (they probably will too) and made money from ads. I infer that reaching a deal was just impossible, but given how much you had to gain from a deal I question how hard you tried.

You recently introduced your own product, years after Rajat & Jayant had already filled the void. Was their source code somehow not up to your high standards? Do you think so little of Scrabulous users that our patronage isn't worth your finding a way for us to make a smooth transition?

I am only one person -- about to become a father, I hope, so in theory the target audience of a toy company. I don't pretend that a multitude of people read this web log, but some of them do, and some are themselves recent parents.

I will go out of my way not to purchase Hasbro products and I urge my friends to do the same.