In Germany “not free” means something like 400$ per semester at the public universities, doesn’t matter the nationality.

Agreed!

Then I do believe you are stuck with physics brother sister. Sorry.

Depends. Do you have a conscience?

Yeah, finding some free ETF saving plan and investing 50 a month will give you some experience in investing. You can learn about, what’s an ETF, what’s diversification and how you react personally to seeing the number go up and down.

One has to start somewhere.

I don’t know if it counts, but I think the source code of Freespace 2 was released eventually und a non-profit license. The community did some great things with it, especially the Blue Planet campaign.

God, I loved this game.