Summary: "The Slave Coast" of France (birthplace of António Campinos, just like Benoît Battistelli in spite of the Portuguese- and Italian-sounding surnames) can possibly relate to what Team UPC is trying to do through the Francophonie/Germanic/Anglo-Saxon EPO, imposing European software patents on EU member states by bypassing their national courts (illegally!) and turning software developers into serfs, with sharecropping [1, 2, 3] like in Microsoft GitHub
In any democratic, functioning institution they would not even ask if he can continue another term; he would be summarily sacked and investigated over the corruption, the cocaine, the racism and so on
The crowd/audience Linus Torvalds panders to is paid by GAFAM to go attend and dominate (speak at) LF events. They're people whose employer forces them to use slop, it's inorganic.