Summary: Consultation in the EPO became so farcical that management basically denied staff's input (in defiance of the EPO's rules/spirit) and when challenged on the matter it responded, very harshly, whereupon staff representatives themselves were painted as the problem
It seems like he was eager to distinguish himself from the "elders" of FSF [...] For anything "revolutionary" to happen in the sciences one must accept the risk of living in poverty like Tesla (the person, not the right-wing fanatics) and Torvalds isn't too old to "cause a stir"