European Patent Office Kontrovers TV Coverage (English Version)
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2016-03-13 18:23:06 UTC
Modified: 2016-03-13 18:50:53 UTC
One man's story gets told (televised even) so that others won't have to go through what he did (implicating what EPO staff memorably calls 'Gestapo' [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7])
Summary: A television program which demonstrates the correlation between aggressive EPO management and staff suicides preserved as a cautionary tale
There are two main themes/ways in which EPO management tries to justify its abuses and iron-fisted governance approach (suicides unsurprisingly grew tenfold); one is to say about the employees that they're "well paid" (or something along those lines, as it monetary compensation exempts them from human rights) and the other is all about "results" (which is a basically a lie). ⬆
As regular readers are likely aware by now, for material we published years ago some likely broke man without a proper job (except in a company made up or invented by him) wants money
The 'broligarchs', a collective which typically created anything of their own, do not want the general population to possess skills that let it be anything other than passive consumers
It would be interesting to see some charts, based on some long-term study, comparing the general health (blood pressure, BMI etc.) of people who use proprietary stuff and people who do not
In the case of Rust, instead of "the liberation of the digital society" we have empowerment of Microsoft GitHub and of GAFAM in general. Guess who funds this...