[spitfire]

Because the organizers themselves are ALSO suits.

They see SW's (in general) as a way to get free labour, they've just learnt enough nerd-speak to bamboozle them into providing that labour.

I've been in the receiving end of "You know this'll be a commodity soon enough" from a guy who's product still relies on a database from 1992, renormalized of course, and who stores dates in packed 16bit numbers.

My advice is to reply with "Great. Best of luck, but you can't use my IP." Better yet retain operational control at all times - don't give out Heroku credentials, etc.

They usually go quiet when you finally show your cards and it's a straight flush.

[shostack]

And hopefully they don't have the need to take it as far as suing you once you withhold things (as you rightfully should in such a situation).

What would suck is doing everything to protect yourself, and then need to waste money (if you can even afford it) on a lawyer if the idiot tries to sue you.