Papa António, will you feed poor, orphaned states in exchange for votes in favour of illegal proposals?
Summary: The current EPO does not and cannot operate properly anymore; the sole goal is milking it to death by giving millions of illegal European Patents (in violation of the European Patent Convention)
We already know, based on an HR pattern we saw at IBM and elsewhere, that reallocating roles can be prerequisite for dismissal and those who do so expect many to resign anyway
Right now, like Twitter around the time it was sold to MElon, "open" "hey hi" is a big pile of debt with a lot to pay for that debt (interest payments)