Wait until they find out how little the person dispensing soup in a homeless shelter is getting paid. OSS is usually like charity, you do it because you can afford to and want to and don't expect anything back from it. Some people end up full time employees in the charity sector, which is also a big industry reliant on free labor.
> OSS is usually like charity, you do it because you can afford to and want to and don't expect anything back from it.
There are reputational rewards associated with open source[1]. However, if you're solely contributing to open source for those rewards, you're going to have a bad time. I would agree that there needs to be a high degree of intrinsic motivation.
