FOSS for Android

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The original was posted on /r/fossdroid by /u/The_How_To_Linux on 2023-09-11 07:22:14.

why does FOSS exist? why did people make foss (free and open source software) why would thousands of extremely highly technically educated code engineers dedicate hundreds if not thousands of hours of their most valuable resource (time) into something like FOSS for free, when they could be spending that very same time making a tremendous amount of money with their highly specialized skill set? why did people decide to make foss software?

don't get me wrong i love foss, i just want to understand it better,

thank you