Out of the same league, where "If it costs nothing, it can not be worth much":

Me working for a large multinational: I would like to support this OpenSource project that we regularly use, can we donate some money?

Boss: OpenSource? NO WAY. We're not commies.

Me: I would like to buy 100 CD's with software to distribute among my colleagues since it will give them the change to learn about some really cool security tools, all installed on a bootable linux live CD.

Boss: 10k Only? GO FOR IT!

That same night, we spend burning 100 CD's and printing 100 labels.

And that, dear readers, was a (really small) push into the development of Auditor, the Linux Penetration Testing Distro. we all learned to love (Hi Max!).