In reply to Danny Santoro.

At any other computer-oriented tradeshow in the modern world, this type of marketing is common place. WordCamps are a conceptual island of ideology and that's why you have not seen it.

But what was not reasonable is for the organizers to realize they never previously considered this issue and then punish Pantheon because they had the creativity to consider it.

What they should have done instead was just taken note and disallowed it in the future. But what they did was put the burden of their lack of foresight on Pantheon rather than acknowledge they had never previously considered this issue.

Imagine if you did something that your city council objected to, so they pass a retroactive law and then come and take you to jail for it. That would just not be justice. Same principle at play here.