For example, my reasons for my (relatively insignificant, but still) FOSS contributions include everything from altruism to scratching an itch to satisfying my intellectual curiosity. If I didn't have bills to pay, I'd probably be making a lot more FOSS contributions, and a lot more regularly.
However, at the end of the day I do have bills to pay, so for better or worse the code I write ends up being the code that gets me paid. Right now this is from a day job. Bounties could instead position FOSS as the code that gets me paid. Maybe one of these days I'll have Patreon/Liberapay/etc. contributions sufficient to keep me afloat (or, for that matter, greater than $0), or my country would extract its cranium from its rectum and entertain the idea of a universal basic income, and then I can dedicate my time to whatever I wish, but today is unfortunately not that day.
That is: the "conflicting" motivations of "money" v. "fun" ain't mutually exclusive. These are both "compensation", in a sense. If I'm already making contributions because they provide "fun", then said contributions only need to provide as much money as I'd need to save up money and not starve; anything beyond that is just gonna go toward fun anyway, which contributing to FOSS already (hopefully) provides.
For example, my reasons for my (relatively insignificant, but still) FOSS contributions include everything from altruism to scratching an itch to satisfying my intellectual curiosity. If I didn't have bills to pay, I'd probably be making a lot more FOSS contributions, and a lot more regularly.
However, at the end of the day I do have bills to pay, so for better or worse the code I write ends up being the code that gets me paid. Right now this is from a day job. Bounties could instead position FOSS as the code that gets me paid. Maybe one of these days I'll have Patreon/Liberapay/etc. contributions sufficient to keep me afloat (or, for that matter, greater than $0), or my country would extract its cranium from its rectum and entertain the idea of a universal basic income, and then I can dedicate my time to whatever I wish, but today is unfortunately not that day.
That is: the "conflicting" motivations of "money" v. "fun" ain't mutually exclusive. These are both "compensation", in a sense. If I'm already making contributions because they provide "fun", then said contributions only need to provide as much money as I'd need to save up money and not starve; anything beyond that is just gonna go toward fun anyway, which contributing to FOSS already (hopefully) provides.