What would be the business model for open souce software such as Firefox or linux? Any ideas? Please Help!

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When already so much work has been done in opensource, and almost an alternative of everything is present for free, even some freebies are better than the paid products, so why can’t this happen that Microsot copies the source code of Mozilla Firefox, make some changes, and go ahead than firefox. No one will ever know what Microsoft did, since they will not reveal their code. This will save a lot of revenue of Microsoft, I guess.

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I am new to the tech industry (I am in the legal department) and am wondering from a practical standpoint why a software developer would develop open source software. Any thoughts?

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