As a former Zynga employee, and someone who personally held patented IP and copyright ownership of code that still generates me personal revenue (as well as through my employment), Zynga was in no way threatening to it. His whole argument about "Connectrode VS Zynga" is really bias. He waited until the last minute to bring this up instead of being up front with Zynga about it from the beginning. I was, and there was no problem.
Exactly. This guy is being dramatic. People love to hate Zynga; this guy could have written a number of boiler-plate complaints about Zynga and HN would jump on the chance to get to talk about how evil this is all over again.
