They are not real hitmen, they are just pranking Open source gurus. The idea is that they are so paranoid that they are ready to closed source industry send real hitmen in the night

1. Fire people without knowing anything about the business, just for feeling powerful
2. People go working for competition (it turns out employers don’t own employees for life)
3. Competition is advantaged by the know how of these people
4. Be mad
5. Lawyers come with the idea that ex employees retained company property (because, again, you don’t own the person). Something either very stupid from Twitter to not ask for corporate equipment or blantly false
6. …
7. Profit (yes, he will profit anyway 🤷)