Summary: Bill Gates never really changed; he merely created a reputation-laundering scam to distract from his appalling behaviour (which later extended to reputation-laundering work on behalf of the biggest child traffickers)
We have some reasons to suspect that one of several parties (possibly not in the UK but having connections here), having suffered major and very expensive setbacks, may look to harm the messenger one way or another
Could the FSF not find any law firm that, in addition to talking about or for Free software, does not use .NET, OOXML, and almost everything Microsoft?