[no_wizard]

In essence these projects live and die with funding. Donations just aren’t enough to pay the bills for full time developers there isn’t any real alternative.

I wish there was more corporate giving to foundations that could handle this sort of thing but we never built that culture in software unfortunately.

I don’t think it’s fair to frame this negatively at all, really misses the nuance of these situations

[R0b0t1]

I do think he captured it quite well -- that they are leaving it as a community project but only directly monetizing it for some people feels, well, wrong? It might be more neutral if they allocate funds for bounties and let anyone claim them, with the core developers obviously being able to address most bounties the fastest.

[pjmlp]

Alternatively FOSS generation could pay for their tools instead of expecting free beer everywhere, then such projects wouldn't need these kind of gymnastics.

[ed_elliott_asc]

Imagine that your main source of income is trying to implement something faster than some random person on the internet - that wouldn’t be fun.

What if you work on something but just before you finish someone else submits the same code.

What if their code is bug ridden but gets the bounty, that would be frustrating.

[__s]

No need for it to feel wrong

There are a few people who basically run PyPy development. They can do as they please. It's open source, so if you're so against it, you can make a "nobody profits" fork. Most outside contributions to open source projects are made by people who wanted to scratch an itch & then let the existing maintainers maintain that improvement. Their reward is the great software. This is still there so long as PyPy commits to remaining freely available

[R0b0t1]

Commercializing the project proper seems incorrect. If they want to take on consulting due to their experience that seems far better.

I never said nobody can make money.

[kubanczyk]

Enough said: "nobody profits" fork is the solution. /s