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The original was posted on /r/opensource by /u/krystln on 2024-04-28 19:32:14.

Hi, I am new to programming and wanted to get some clarification. Why do companies pay their employees to work on open source? I get that they might be using that project themselves. But is there any other reason? And why do these companies open source their own projects? Like Facebook has alot of projects like react or the Llama AI. Wouldn’t they benefit more by keeping it all proprietary?