Would You Open Your Home To a Hacker – For Free?

Posted by timothy on Saturday August 25, 2012 @02:22AM from the are-you-including-stock-options? dept.

coondoggie writes "What do you get when you mix access to Google's ultra-fast fiber network and old fashioned grass roots business ideas? Well, in this case you'd get someone living on your couch for free for three months. This week a group calling itself the 'Kansas City Hacker Homes' launched a program that calls on the good folks of Kansas City to open up their homes to entrepreneurs and developers who would live and work there for a period of three months, rent and utility free. They have to buy their own food."

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Litigation stifles Innovation. by geekmux · 2012-08-25 02:40 · Score: 1, Offtopic

So, care to tell me who pays the lawyers fees when said "entrepreneur" injures themselves on your private property and decides to sue?
This is one example. You think anyone is gonna step right on up to the plate on all the other bullshit we have to thank our litigious society for?
Sure, I'll allow them in my home...as soon as they "innovate" a way around my liability.
Yes, yet again, litigation stifles innovation...even before it can start.