What? No. That’s crazy. (I believe you. I’ve just … never heard of giving up IP rights because you participated in a hackathon.)
This is about community and building fun things. I can’t speak for all the sponsors, but what I want is to show people the Open Source tooling we work on at Daily, and see/hear what other people interested in real-time AI are thinking about and working on.
+1, speaking for the sponsors, exactly what Kwindla said