Lots of companies hire people to work on open source projects. It is how most of it gets written. He could probably get a job where working on this is part of it in a heartbeat.
(not that I disagree with this project or method, I think he should do the same as what Google Appengine does with its installer - it is seriously awesome)
(not that I disagree with this project or method, I think he should do the same as what Google Appengine does with its installer - it is seriously awesome)