Bill Gates? I don’t think he is really involved much with Microsoft anymore. He stepped down from the board of directors in 2020.

I don’t think they make money. It’s an open source project where people donate their time as far as I know.

EDIT: I forgot to mention you can donate to the project. Something has to pay for web hosting, I guess.

I built a new PC two months ago and it’s the first time I didn’t get Office. Libre Office has everything I need and it’s free.

I can spend 17 minutes driving to work, or 1.5 hours catching buses. Easy choice for me.

That’s a very specific sub-genre.