SF Weekly: FarmVillains
“Many successful companies have their original sins — corners cut, bridges burned, allies trampled. In Zynga’s case, former employees say, its towering commercial edifice was built on a particularly shaky ethical foundation: copying the products of competitors. And while in the games industry, as in the fashion industry, some degree of design similarity is expected, Zynga has earned itself a reputation as a particularly rapacious predator of ideas.”


