<i>It&#x27;s up to you to not accept that excuse.</i><p>Except, the company endpoint is a low status programmer.<p>Imagine how quickly the average programmer would get laughed out of the room if they went to their manager and asked for $100,000 to pay an external contractor to implement a feature they need.  Oh, also the feature will be open source and other companies will be able to use it after it&#x27;s written too.<p>The world doesn&#x27;t operate on that level yet outside of maybe seven companies in the world.