[throwaway2037]

    > Software in Germany is built to achieve a means to an end. It is never the end goal itself.

How do explain the explosion of non-embedded software companies in Berlin in the last 20 years? On the continent, it is hard to beat the Berlin tech scene for start-ups.

[FirmwareBurner]

zero interest money and consumer demand of knock-off products that SV made a decade before and proved the market is successful