Summary: The chaos left by Team Battistelli is more than a decade old and it's nowhere near resolved; the way things are going, it's more likely that the EPO will get dissolved for being captured by people who undermine the EPO's goals/mission and now attempt to do the very same thing to patent courts all across Europe
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.
"Before the announcement, former Microsoft employees publicly described staff being placed on performance improvement plans or offered “voluntary” exits."
