It actually isn’t, or rather it wasn’t. A lot of the big open source projects came out of people that spent undefined amounts of time in or around universities.

It actually isn’t, or rather it wasn’t. A lot of the big open source projects came out of people that spent undefined amounts of time in or around universities. It was possible because students didn’t need to worry about meeting commercial needs because they could a comfortable life doing what they like without pressure, and because grants were not beholden to commercial interests. Not only have Bologna accords creeped in a slow Americanization of European education but open source has also been hijacked. A lot of this is on Europe’s own self destructive policies though. When they try to mimic the US all that comes out of it, is a crappier version of the US, with more bureaucracy, where they cannot compete on dollars spent.