> "Hey, you know there’s this guy Zed who wrote the software I’m using, why don’t we hire him as a consultant?" This seems wrong. For example, let's say we use

> "Hey, you know there’s this guy Zed who wrote the software I’m using, why don’t we hire him as a consultant?" This seems wrong. For example, let's say we use Apache webserver and Rails. They aren't our core business. I really don't want to need core contributors from Apache webserver and Rails to help us use them. Now, if our core business was building a new server or framework on top of Apache or Rails respectively, that would be a different matter.