please dont say me like just suppporting the FS r Open Software … i dont understand what thy mean

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Charlie Rose (April 21, 2005)

Open-source software doesn’t have to be free. The two go hand-in-hand very well, but open-source licensing like the GPL only stipulates that the source code be made available at no additional cost not that the software can’t be sold commercially.
For free open-source software, covering their expenses happens in a number of ways. You can buy copies of various Linux distributions, usually for premade disks and possibly a printed manual, pay for support, or contribute in the form of a donation. Sometimes the developers themselves will pay for operation costs out of their own pockets.
Most people contributing to free open-source projects do so simply because they like doing it.

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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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Is it just a hobby thing or a resume thing for them

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