In reply to Sasha-Shae.

From the article and as others in this comments section suggest, I would guess the tone of the dialog escalated when they were trying to deal with the situation, and if I'm right then there is no point in asking what was said by bringing in the transparency argument.

Concerning the request to remove the advertizing, it was a bit harsh since it wasn't explicitely prohibited but still fair from the organizing commitee and from Matt in regards to the other sponsors. Leaving it as is could have provoked conspiracy theories (looking at you Mark and Miroslav ;) ).

All in all, the Pantheon team has moved on (at least officially) and they still got some publicity out of it, not the kind of one they would have wanted but something is still better than nothing and they still succeeded to achieve some brand awarness, which was the whole point of their sponsorship in the first place.

One last point, I guess the WPF/WCUS will probably edit their contracts to cover this but they should, if it's not yet the case, add a clause stating that they can take arbitrary decisions in cases not covered/mentioned in the contract/guidelines.