N.B. Charlie McCreevy tried to paint efforts to rectify patent law (and the EPO) as "anti-Americanism". It's a straw man. He said: "The theme, or the background music, to both of these particular directives you could see as part of, anti-globalisation, anti-Americanism, anti-big business protests --- in lots of senses, anti-the opening up of markets." To whom? To banks?
If IBM cared about quality rather than alleged "cost savings" (cutting corners), it would assign more IBM staff to Fedora, but instead the exact opposite happened, with the likes of Cotton and Miller removed from the project