The MetaCreations board of directors probably hired a new CEO who would implement grand ideas for them or some such nonsense (this happens all the time in high tech companies) and then the guy totally effed them over because he had warts for brains and no grasp of reality. Someday they will fire him and pay him $M to go away. Man, i hate those guys. My day job company has miraculously survived one of these numbnuts and are starting to actually prosper again, now that we've gotten back to what we do well, and run by the original founder.