Comment by LinuxBender

This is certainly a thing. I worked along side people that used to be part of Sequent that made the Dynix PTX NumaQ OS and hardware. Sequent was purchased by IBM for a lot of money to destroy it. This left a lot of companies and government installations of Dynix unsupported. People could either pay IBM a massive ransom to continue support or hire one of the dozen or so former Sequent employees. I was part of a company that did the latter. I don't know exactly how much they were paid but they seemed super happy to assist at any hour for any issue regardless of how trivial it may be. One of them would assist us from his boat. I enjoyed working with these people. Super friendly, smart, it was a rare treat. So do you have a boat or remote retirement retreat with internet? :-)