Tech giant brings software to a gun fight

[Alea]

3. Yeah I don't see this going their way at all

$3 million is nothing to Camping World. If the software was purchased I don't see salesforce having a say in it until a contract runs out. I can't see any company, no matter what they sell, wanting to buy a business running software where the software company has a say in what they sell.

Apparently salesforce recently hired a "Chief Ethical and Humane use Officer" that will decide all this stuff. If this person is a super vegan will they tell Publix they can't sell meat anymore? Will they tell a financial company using their software they can't make loans to white people? Tell an automotive maker they can only sell electric cars? I guess it's ok if you buy their software knowing this going in, but to buy it, implement it into your company at great expense, and then be told you can't use it if you sell product X that our Chief Ethical and Humane use Officer doesn't approve of is crazy.

Companies already using it need to push back hard, and companies that may buy their software in the future may decide to buy another platform. If I owned a company, there is no way I would buy this knowing they had a say in what I sold. It seems like a software company would want to sell their software. They're doing well now but the bottom could drop out in no time with a policy like that.