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A comment on Hack4Detroit's indemnification clause.

Re:Hack4Detroit's indemnification clause by stretchwithme on Saturday June 13, 2015 @03:49PM (#9712362)
You had to pay a fee? To create things for free?
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Re:Hack4Detroit's indemnification clause by minimaxir on Saturday June 13, 2015 @03:57PM (#9712395)
Hackathons are not free to run at any significant scale. (especially when prizes are involved)

Usually, the costs are covered by sponsors, and I can't find any indication that there were sponsors for this event.

EDIT: Comment is incorrect; there were sponsors, see child comment.

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Re:Hack4Detroit's indemnification clause by vnchr on Saturday June 13, 2015 @04:14PM (#9712466)
The event was sponsored. Local folks and some national brands like Comcast and 5-hour energy. Winner gets a $5k prize.

Here is the event detail. http://www.automationalley.com/Events/Calendar/Event-Detail....

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Re:Hack4Detroit's indemnification clause by vnchr on Saturday June 13, 2015 @10:04PM (#9713561)
And the organizers have deleted the event details here (10pm EST)
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Re:Hack4Detroit's indemnification clause by zimbatm on Saturday June 13, 2015 @04:15PM (#9712470)
Sure but hiring developers is also not free, the price is just more evenly distributed.
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