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It probably depends on what it is. If he's not making money on it now, what is there to lose though? The more code you have out there, the more your name gets in the wild to perhaps be seen by the right person. Who knows!
I do know that we've hired from the open source 'community' on a semi-regular basis. It usually starts with a "Hey, we need project X modified in Y manner, we'll pay for the dev work and the code can be released back to the community if desired". Then if that developer is good we offer additional work as well.
I would also agree though, that most open source projects are fairly worthless - you need to have a userbase if you expect to make an income from it in any manner.
-Phil
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