Looks like the executive who messaged them 30 mins before took it personally that they ended up presenting even though he asked them not to so he fired them. Otherwise it makes no sense to fire people right after they finish their talk, unless of course you got an ego to show.

Either way Salesforce really fucked up here.

I have a feeling that we're only getting half of the story here. I kinda feel, because of the way the article is written, that these 2 didn't actually get approval to do this release but decided to anyways. There are too many details about that process left out of the article that it feels like it's being disingenuous in its "transparency".

Sounds like an executive that's afraid of "Hackers" and well out of tune with what the industry is about.

As a Sales(overpriced)force user, it's definitely something that infuriates me as someone that would both leverage their platform and METAPISTOL for our firms consulting work.

Bad on them. It could have been great PR like Netflix and their open source tools.