I don't want to hire people who "paid their dues" but I do want to hire passionate people, and those that contribute to OSS seem to be the ones actually interes

I don't want to hire people who "paid their dues" but I do want to hire passionate people, and those that contribute to OSS seem to be the ones actually interested in programming, and that gives them a higher chance of getting along with me and others. Someone can tell me all sorts of accomplishments on their resume. They can tell me about some cool NDA or Intranet project they wrote lots of code for. But I can learn a LOT more about their skills from their Github page. So when I tell students to get into OSS, it's not to get free labor or to make them "pay their dues". It's to give them a better shot.