It's a bit unreasonable for him to get his speculative project (Oak) funded on the one hand, yet on the other he has a problem with the corporation actually earning the money to be able to do that.

A corporation is a technology, it's the metaphysical form of the factory, it's a tool for transforming low-value inputs into high-value outputs. There simply is no point in talking about the morality of inanimate, non-sentient objects.