Yes and no. It's cheaper for tax purposes to hire contractors, but
what ends up happening is that end-users will call _you_ for support,
and if the device driver was done by a third party, you'll end up
having someone working almost full-time relaying bug reports and
bugfixes back and forth.
(And, yes, this is assuming a source-available driver; what a lot
of vendors want is a 100 million seat userbase, and a majority of
those users won't give a damn about the driver being freely
distributable or source-available, but will care that it works.)
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david parsons \bi/ A contractor who's had to deflect support questions
\/ with "sorry, but the vendor doesn't pay me anymore."
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