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by niemandhier 1165 days ago
Other comments highlighted some aspects, but one thing that should not be underestimated is that German hacker culture has strong anarchistic tendencies and there just is no place to be creative in cs and make money, at least not in the same way as in the us.

So lots of highly talented people just do open source in their free time or work at universities.