Part of the reason is to to get controlled competition.
Same with google being the largest donator to firefox. If they wouldn’t do this it would create a hole that could motivates many others to create new innovation that could become a threat to them.
Also so they can deflect anti monopoly laws and also because they benefit from open source themselves.










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