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Okay fine. If you buy people's time and skills with money, I guess you can solve all software development problems with money.

I meant, say you want to ship [any new software product]. There are parts that are common to everyone, and parts that are unique to your product. Whatever is common to others, see what you can leverage (i.e. buy with money), so that you can make time to focus on what is unique to your problem.

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I can buy programming time from others who will solve the unique part, too. I don't imagine I'm somehow the only person in the world who can solve some particular problem.

I can even buy time from people who will develop the description of the problem well enough from my wague idea to make it comprehesible/implementable by programmers, and who will lead those programmers for me.

My point is that it's not important whether something is common or unique to my product. For some "rolling their own" even if it's a common solution may be a good and comparatively cheeper proposition, if that will end up costing less as a result and will leave more resources to devote to their product overall.

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