Well, the first impulse is naturally to just use what's out there for free and leave it to some other poor sap to shoulder the cost of maintenance. That puts y

Well, the first impulse is naturally to just use what's out there for free and leave it to some other poor sap to shoulder the cost of maintenance. That puts you ahead in the short run, at the cost of higher risk. It takes a strong open source advocacy effort to a reach out and a sophisticated organization to be reached, for such an organization to recognize when it's in their interest to participate in open source maintenance.