Save Scrabulous!

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BBC NEWS | Technology | Facebook asked to pull Scrabulous

Above is a link to today's article about the current situation of the beloved Scrabulous game, which now has more than 500,000 daily users on Facebook. Amid all the fan protests, Hasbro and Mattel, who jointly own the rights to the Scrabble game, have put together a joint case asking Facebook to pull the game.

Now, I don't know what everyone expects Zukerberg to do about this - being such a young buck, he may just try to say no to the big corporate um... game... lawyers... and attempt some sort of stonewall on his own. However, my thought is, why does he have to surrender something that has half a million people logging on to Facebook each day to play?

Here's an idea: why doesn't Hasbro buy the Scrabulous game? Why don't they offer the software developer brothers from Kolkata some nice sum of money that's comparable to the cost of waging this war on innocent fun, and then just own Scrabulous? Why is that so hard?