In other words, volunteers can contribute but others get to monetize?
People like you helping people like us help ourselves - Processed World.
The reality is that the PyPy folk (all single-digit-number of them) have fought tooth and nail to keep the project going for well over a decade. I can't begin to imagine how much highly skilled labour has been poured in by such a small concentration, all for little more than praise and repute on a handful of IT forums.
Give them a break
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
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.
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
I never said nobody can make money.
The tragedy is that the Python ecosystem broadly doesn't use PyPy and doesn't contribute much to it, neither code nor cash. Our compiler engineers are just as good as the folks working on CPython (and there's some overlap), but don't enjoy the powerful deep-pocketed corporate support.