Next was the option of making CS a profit center and freeing the researchers from their ties to CS and hopefully of their frustrations. CS could set any prices it liked and change them as often as it liked. At the same time researchers would be allowed to go outside and purchase the software and hardware they wanted. Consultants would suffer the consequences if something they bought from outside crashed or had bugs. However, network compatibility and integration were both major concerns for CS. In addition, pricing for CS's network maintenance and support work would become more complicated. Both Learner and Whalen preferred to keep computer purchasing decisions within CS to ensure compatibility and avoid maintenance problems, and to avoid researchers’ wasting their time buying computers and software.