You could, but that's going to be the unloaded cost of a developer, add another 80k for benefits, tax, and everything else that comes with an employee. Even aft

You could, but that's going to be the unloaded cost of a developer, add another 80k for benefits, tax, and everything else that comes with an employee. Even after that you've got a single kernel developer who might have learnt enough about the particular part of the kernel you're having problems with. Assuming its the kernel. Either that, or pay 80k to Red Hat, who have dozens of kernel developers one of whom probably knows about your issue, and if it turns out not to be the kernel probably have someone on staff that can investigate that as well. Worst case they know who to contact upstream to dig deeper into your issue.