01.27.09

IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: January 26th, 2009

Posted in IRC Logs at 4:22 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

schestowitz	http://message.snopes.com/showthre…	Jan 26 00:47
MinceR	lol	Jan 26 00:54
MinceR	gn	Jan 26 00:56
schestowitz	nn	Jan 26 00:56
schestowitz	Palm Quietly Responds to Apple’s Quiet Threat http://www.osnews.com/story/20845/Palm_Quietly…	Jan 26 01:04
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schestowitz	Alec Baldwin favourited… Novell employee… http://uk.youtube.com/user/bhendrick65 … we had one troll posting under ‘Alec Baldwin’… interesting.	Jan 26 01:32
schestowitz	“Alec Baldwin (IP: 86.146.49.183 , host86-146-49-183.range86-146.btcentralplus.com)”	Jan 26 01:33
schestowitz	Quantum Leap: Information Teleported between Ions at a Distance http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=quantu…	Jan 26 01:41
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schestowitz	The other GNU (Africa): http://www.hararetribune.com/harare-opinio… (The GNU is a Ponzi Scheme)	Jan 26 09:07
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MinceR	r4wr	Jan 26 10:09
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logger_bot	OK, it’s back up	Jan 26 10:42
logger_bot	My 21′ monitor (secondary) is f*ed over here and BIOS is misbehaving as well. Ho hum..	Jan 26 10:43
schestowitz	NSA whistleblower: Warrantless wiretaps targeted journos < http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01… >	Jan 26 13:41
schestowitz	Lots of discussion goes on in KDE about Linus’ choice:	Jan 26 13:57
schestowitz	http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2009/01/ch…	Jan 26 13:57
schestowitz	Netbooks Damaging The Tech Economy? Say What?!? < http://techdirt.com/articles/200901… >	Jan 26 14:02
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schestowitz	Brazil’s secret Palm OS developer < http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/new… >. Intel’s Barrett to leave in May… is Palm using ARM?	Jan 26 14:49
schestowitz	Microsoft is hopefully not demoralising people.Microsoft is more feeble than the Average Joe realises.. http://boycottnovell.com/2009/01/…	Jan 26 15:01
schestowitz	SOmeone wrote to me: “”You’ve put together a huge amount of information on your website. I hope it all does some good. I sometimes feel like it’s too late to make a difference because MS is already too influential. Microsoft people seem already to have infiltrated every company and organization that could oppose them.”	Jan 26 15:01
schestowitz	Also: “A while back I had collected some links about Bill Gates dad and how much power his law firm has. I’ll see if I can find that information again. If I remember correctly it was from news releases about the Gates law firm buying up other law firms to the point where they now have offices nationwide. “	Jan 26 15:02
schestowitz	“I actually believe that’s where the real power behind Microsoft comes from, but who can know for sure…” We’ll see corruption exposed, that’s for sure. http://boycottnovell.com/2008/12/22/microsof…	Jan 26 15:02
schestowitz	http://en.wikipedia.org/wik… “He also serves as a director for Costco wholesale, a bulk retail corporation. “	Jan 26 15:05
schestowitz	“About the two Firms JAG worked for: – - The firm of William H. Gates Sr., father of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, merged with Preston in 1990. The later old line Seattle firm started when Harold Preston relocated to Seattle from Iowa in 1883 and began practicing law. Jim Ellis joined Preston in 1949. “	Jan 26 15:06
schestowitz	“Members of JAG were registered lobbyists for Microsoft. During the 90′s PGE became a Top 10 lobbying Firm based on lobbying gross revenue. Much of their lobbying success and revenue was due to the success of JAG.” http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/…	Jan 26 15:06
schestowitz	http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/lo…	Jan 26 15:10
schestowitz	EU Might Force OEMs to Offer Choice of Browsers During Setup < http://www.osnews.com/story/20850/EU_Might_Force_OEM… >	Jan 26 15:15
schestowitz	“THERE AREN’T MANY widely told anecdotes about the current financial crisis, at least not yet, but there’s one that made the rounds in 2007, back when the big investment banks were first starting to write down billions of dollars in mortgage-backed derivatives and other so-called toxic securities.” http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/maga…	Jan 26 15:28
schestowitz	What a sham: Microsoft dresses up .NET with “open source”: http://www.heise-online.co.uk/open/Community-Liv…	Jan 26 15:30
trmanco	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linu…	Jan 26 15:30
schestowitz	http://boycottnovell.com/2009/01/24/ad…	Jan 26 15:35
trmanco	I read some	Jan 26 15:36
trmanco	not all of them	Jan 26 15:36
trmanco	oh, I see a first slated reply	Jan 26 15:40
trmanco	mind games, pff	Jan 26 15:44
schestowitz	“I thought that I would let you know about Stormy Peters’ Mexico school project, in case you have not yet heard about it. http://is.gd/hgTK …”	Jan 26 15:53
schestowitz	TuxMachines has been down for half a day	Jan 26 15:53
trmanco	Tomorrow I’m going to update my 2.6.28.x kernel to the latest version on Fedora	Jan 26 15:56
schestowitz	The news (in general, not just FLOSS) is diminishing. THis leaves me wondering about ways forward…..	Jan 26 15:58
schestowitz	Linux Foundation Announces Formal Kick Off for “We’re Linux” Video Contest < http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/The-Li… >	Jan 26 16:01
schestowitz	Doesn’t qualify as news though… compare “company announces new brand of macaroni” with “John like “macaroni”. A lot of the news these days are the latter type (+layoff announcements)	Jan 26 16:02
schestowitz	I’ll do a lot more Comes exhibits in the near future.. we shall see………….	Jan 26 16:03
trmanco	Just found this -> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Qemu	Jan 26 16:51
schestowitz	Check this out: http://boycottnovell.com/wp-content…	Jan 26 16:57
schestowitz	Walt Mossberg?????? WTF? He’s a journalist.	Jan 26 16:57
PetoKraus	oh well	Jan 26 17:13
PetoKraus	latest beranger’s “oh linux is not mature” post is shite	Jan 26 17:13
schestowitz	I don’t read him anymore	Jan 26 17:17
PetoKraus	yeah well	Jan 26 17:18
PetoKraus	i’m skipping quite a lot	Jan 26 17:18
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schestowitz	Shaping up a bit… http://boycottnovell.com/wiki/inde…	Jan 26 18:12
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trmanco	http://www.globalnerdy.com/2009/01/2…	Jan 26 20:07
schestowitz	I’ve just added all the Intel items, inc. anti-Linux at Intel: http://boycottnovell.com/wiki/index.php?…	Jan 26 20:09
schestowitz	it’s a lot of work to be done… some day, some time.. hopefully before Microsoft is history (in which case it beats the purpose)	Jan 26 20:09
schestowitz	I’ve made local copies of almost all PDFs. The wiki takes good shape.	Jan 26 20:16
schestowitz	trmanco: has RMS gained weight? ;-S	Jan 26 20:20
trmanco	maybe	Jan 26 20:21
trmanco	he is getting old	Jan 26 20:21
schestowitz	But the two things may be mutually independent.	Jan 26 20:22
trmanco	yep, they are	Jan 26 20:22
schestowitz	http://boycottnovell.com/wiki/index.php?title=DRM	Jan 26 20:23
schestowitz	http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer… “BRITAIN’S new database which will contain all the personal details of every kid in Britian will be open to nearly 400,000 people.”	Jan 26 20:26
schestowitz	Romanian Senate Web site helpfully takes *nix users to IEs 4 Linux page so we can experience the joy of IE – http://is.gd/hgRp. Thanks, not http://twitter.com/glynmoody/statuses/1149270158	Jan 26 20:27
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schestowitz	CNET is pushing pro-MS fluff into CNN… not even news, just some promise. Shame on CNN..	Jan 26 20:28
trmanco	OOo 3.0.1 is going to be released tomorrow	Jan 26 20:47
schestowitz	Security patches?	Jan 26 20:47
schestowitz	BTW, I think “Barca” is Gary flatfish Stewart	Jan 26 20:47
schestowitz	Philips admits first loss in six years < http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/… >	Jan 26 20:49
schestowitz	See… that’s the only type of ‘significant’ news one finds these days	Jan 26 20:50
schestowitz	No product announcement.	Jan 26 20:50
schestowitz	Without products, thingshardly change	Jan 26 20:50
schestowitz	I’ll turn more attention to Comes while it lasts…	Jan 26 20:50
schestowitz	Sprint Nextel chops 8,000 workers < http://www.theregister.co.uk/200… >	Jan 26 20:51
trmanco	schestowitz, not sure, more like a maintenance bug update	Jan 26 20:52
trmanco	I don’t know if it got any security patches	Jan 26 20:52
schestowitz	None I’ve heard of.	Jan 26 20:52
schestowitz	OOo is harming Office.	Jan 26 20:52
schestowitz	Google maybe more so	Jan 26 20:53
schestowitz	Office got very cheap provided one looks around… and the revenue suffer accordingly.	Jan 26 20:53
schestowitz	Here is a message I got some hours ago: “I don’t doubt Microsoft is on the ropes, financially. It’s always been hard to see how they kept above water when they obsessively insisted on getting their fingers in every pie. They never seemed to focus on anything but chasing everyone else’s markets. They’ve HAD to be bleeding money, profusely, in every department. The ODF nonsense, alone, had to have cost them plenty…mostly in hus	Jan 26 20:53
schestowitz	h-money, wouldn’t you think? “	Jan 26 20:53
schestowitz	“I guess what bothers me most is that they have infiltrated so many places in Washington DC. I just think they’ll find as many ways as possible to get the government to help them out. They are much too greedy to stand back and watch everyone else get bailout money. They’ll want a big chunk too, if they can get it (by hook or by crook). After all, lots of politicians owe favors to Microsoft.”	Jan 26 20:53
schestowitz	“We all think that Microsoft will (eventually) show itself to be one of the biggest worldwide scams in history…probably not THE biggest, but definitely in the top ten. But they’ll have caused a lot of damage before that happens.”	Jan 26 20:54
schestowitz	[this is from a very conservative source BTW]	Jan 26 20:54
schestowitz	“If this horrible economic “downturn” (as the press politely calls it) helps to cause the demise of Microsoft, then at least some good will come of it. It should be interesting to see how many disgruntled ex-employees start talking after the layoffs are done.”	Jan 26 20:54
schestowitz	“I’m sure they all have to sign papers promising never to talk about MS internal stuff, but sometimes people get mad enough to become whistleblowers. It’ll be interesting.”	Jan 26 20:54
schestowitz	As you may know, I intend to expose many more TRUTHS pretty soon.	Jan 26 20:54
schestowitz	How table turn… Wikipedia tames the very predecessors that brag being better: Britannica Tests Wikis < http://www.pcworld.com/article/158327/b… >	Jan 26 21:02
schestowitz	That’s like Microsoft testing Linux (as alternative to Windows) for own use	Jan 26 21:02
schestowitz	http://www.pcworld.com/article/15832… (Sony Loses $2.9 Billion, Makes New PSP Colors)	Jan 26 21:03
MinceR	it’s going the other way too, now :>	Jan 26 21:03
MinceR	http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl…	Jan 26 21:03
schestowitz	Linux has that too (patchmaster). It makes sense if it scales	Jan 26 21:05
schestowitz	“Scott McNealy, the Sun Microsystems co-founder and chairman, is legendary for his Microsoft jokes. But the Redmond company should probably take seriously what McNealy is saying these days — at least considering the audience.” < http://www.techflash.com/microsoft/Obama_liste… >	Jan 26 21:12
schestowitz	Maybe Microsoft can hire McNealy..	Jan 26 21:12
schestowitz	Some reader says: “[re: corporate Internet presence...] I notice it’s been a while since I posted my question of whether “Dan O’Brian” has some professional link to Novell or Microsoft and so far he has not answered. He sure seems to have gotten more emotional lately. I guess some of these posts are really starting to hit home for him.”	Jan 26 21:12
schestowitz	I wonder if we have Novellers posting ‘out of work’… “Also, I should mention that I just got out of a meeting where the topic of corporate presence on the Internet came up. The guy sitting next to me is an Exchange administrator and he mentioned that Microsoft encourages their employees to write their own blogs.”	Jan 26 21:14
schestowitz	“I’m sure that’s not news for either of us but I was a little more surprised when someone else mentioned that she subscribes to Comcast and she posted of a problem she was having with their service to her blog. Someone from Comcast found her post quickly and her problem was escalated and resolved.”	Jan 26 21:14
schestowitz	“This was after frustration going through normal technical support channels. It turns out that Comcast has a group of people who spend their time searching the Internet for “Comcast sucks” and following up on any matches. Another interesting story is that my predecessor used to run a blog lambasting our vendor.”	Jan 26 21:14
schestowitz	“Even though my predecessor is long gone and that blog probably is no longer maintained since she no longer works with this vendor, the vendor representatives still bring up this issue from time to time with my bosses. This all means that corporate concern over their image on the Internet has become mainstream.”	Jan 26 21:14
schestowitz	“I guess I’m also saying that it would surprise me even less if “Dan O’Brian” is a paid astro-turferwho now figures that, since he has not succeeded appreciably with toning down Boycott Novell’s coverage, he might as well just try to make the site a more unpleasant place by making ad hominem attacks.”	Jan 26 21:14
schestowitz	TuxMachines is still down… almost been a day now………..	Jan 26 21:15
schestowitz	Why celebrities love Twittering < http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/en… >. Twitter valuation a quarter of a billion?	Jan 26 21:21
PetoKraus	bah	Jan 26 21:24
schestowitz	Microsoft servants unite around Xen and Windows…. Intel, Citrix To Collaborate On Virtualized Desktops < http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/v… >	Jan 26 21:25
PetoKraus	anything new on conficker?	Jan 26 21:27
PetoKraus	i really wonder what’ll it do	Jan 26 21:28
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schestowitz	Time to cut off ZDnet\|IDG: http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/01/2…	Jan 26 21:30
schestowitz	Talking points galore	Jan 26 21:30
schestowitz	PetoKraus: it’s said to have stopped around 10 million . I saw a report this morning.	Jan 26 21:30
schestowitz	Why of why do they feed the TALKING HEADS? http://linux-watch.com/news/NS5784396972.html	Jan 26 21:31
schestowitz	*why oh	Jan 26 21:31
schestowitz	“And anyway, the idea that the OS will disappear, or become a commodity is something I’ve been reading about in computer magazines since Apple’s ill-fated Copland OS project in the mid-90s. The idea comes and goes, but ain’t happened yet. “	Jan 26 21:32
schestowitz	Oh noes! Linux is gonna die!! Don’t bet your business on it…. that’s the message they try to send.	Jan 26 21:33
twitter	What’s up with Walt Mossberg? I just added him to my poison pens collection yesterday	Jan 26 21:33
schestowitz	twitter: why did you add him?	Jan 26 21:33
schestowitz	I intend to write about his tomorrow. He’s a buddy of Gates.. there goes some credibility (also for the WSJ)	Jan 26 21:34
twitter	I noticed he was a consistent linux basher parading as the voice of reason	Jan 26 21:34
twitter	I think we also noticed him in some of the journalist manipulation emails.	Jan 26 21:34
MinceR	i guess it’s something apple wishes to happen	Jan 26 21:34
MinceR	ever since they’ve realized they can’t hack up an os worth using	Jan 26 21:34
schestowitz	Has he written his “Windows 7 will [kill\|kick\|destory] Linux” ‘article’ yet?	Jan 26 21:35
twitter	Don’t know. I wrote up a little of what I found here … digging up the link.	Jan 26 21:35
schestowitz	twitter: got examples of the mails?	Jan 26 21:35
schestowitz	I know about the Dell Ubuntu Linux article (laptop that GASP didn’t work with his iPod).	Jan 26 21:35
twitter	http://slashdot.org/~twitter/jou…	Jan 26 21:35
schestowitz	Can you help me clean up the text?	Jan 26 21:36
twitter	we turned them into text a couple of weeks ago. I did not have time to dig up the link.	Jan 26 21:36
twitter	sure, I got your email earlier. will check that out tonight. you have more?	Jan 26 21:36
schestowitz	http://pastebin.com/m381f93a1	Jan 26 21:36
schestowitz	Original PDF: http://boycottnovell.com/wiki/index.php?title=Mi…	Jan 26 21:37
trmanco	schestowitz, you can have your own pastebin (private	Jan 26 21:37
schestowitz	That’s OK	Jan 26 21:37
schestowitz	It’s public material anyway now.. (Comes)	Jan 26 21:37
trmanco	http://boycottnovell.pastebin.com/	Jan 26 21:37
trmanco	you can just type in any subdomain and it will work	Jan 26 21:38
schestowitz	I’ll link to Poison Pens tomorrow	Jan 26 21:39
PetoKraus	schestowitz: destory	Jan 26 21:39
schestowitz	I ought to also find that other corresponse with him re Vista	Jan 26 21:39
PetoKraus	that’s actually quite correct	Jan 26 21:40
twitter	Oh, thanks. It’s something I’ve been working on.	Jan 26 21:40
PetoKraus	right well	Jan 26 21:44
PetoKraus	which article does the linux-watch article talk about?	Jan 26 21:45
schestowitz	I’ve just gone through headers of 50 pages of Vista lawsuit	Jan 26 21:45
schestowitz	No Mossberg there…	Jan 26 21:45
schestowitz	PetoKraus: not worth seeinfg	Jan 26 21:46
PetoKraus	don’t worry, i’ve got adblock	Jan 26 21:46
PetoKraus		Jan 26 21:46
schestowitz	It’s probably W-E and other fools selling out	Jan 26 21:46
schestowitz	For traffic or favour of cash..	Jan 26 21:46
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schestowitz	http://www.linux.com/ “Job seekers and job openings in Linux and OFSS”	Jan 26 22:01
schestowitz	Bad typo for a front page that’s been there for a long time… why don’t they correct it..?	Jan 26 22:01
schestowitz	Newsvac is over as welll…. December.. http://www.linux.com/feed/	Jan 26 22:02
schestowitz	Groklaw ought to return…	Jan 26 22:02
schestowitz	3,600 Microsoft Shoes Waiting to Drop < http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2009/0… >	Jan 26 22:04
schestowitz	This will get worse for them in the future.. sales and profit declining… http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2009/01/…	Jan 26 22:05
schestowitz	“Kanye West says someone has taken control of his Twitter. Not to mention his Gmail and MySpace accounts. [...]” Kanye West blames Gmail hijack for bisexual porn hoax < http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01… >	Jan 26 22:17
twitter	eww	Jan 26 22:17
schestowitz	It reminds me of the trolls mischiefs against me	Jan 26 22:17
schestowitz	They hijack my name, then post all sorts of stuff about castration.	Jan 26 22:17
schestowitz	Then, even years later they link to many such posts that they had planted	Jan 26 22:18
twitter	ha ha, -> “Who the fuck is Stephen Colbert?”	Jan 26 22:19
twitter	Fake News, that’s who	Jan 26 22:19
twitter	The story is not so nice but it is good to watch big broadcasters in decline.	Jan 26 22:23
twitter	I saw someone complaining about fixed margins and a lot of <br> commands on a page today. The page would have rendered OK without the breaks but it was a mess with them.	Jan 26 22:25
twitter	I can also see the complaint about text that does not scale with browser size. I think it’s a CSS downside but don’t really know.	Jan 26 22:25
schestowitz	Which site?	Jan 26 22:28
twitter	NIH, I think	Jan 26 22:35
twitter	nope, it was some kind of “Federal Biz Ops” page.	Jan 26 22:37
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schestowitz	MinceR: http://www.osor.eu/news/hu-gove… (HU: Government withdraws tender requesting proprietary software)	Jan 26 22:58
MinceR	i’ve heard about it but not read about it	Jan 26 22:59
MinceR	i’ve heard they did it because they couldn’t agree who gets the bribe money :>	Jan 26 22:59
schestowitz	I can imagine. They’ll be discussing it with SteveB over face omelete.	Jan 26 23:01
twitter	Good for Hungry! Looks like the egg toss paid off.	Jan 26 23:10
twitter	LOL, SteveB’s Open Face Omelet.	Jan 26 23:11
schestowitz	Who’s Hungry?	Jan 26 23:11
twitter	http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&saf…	Jan 26 23:12
twitter	I’m hungry.	Jan 26 23:12
twitter	It’s time for dinner. Don’t tell anyone I misspelled the country.	Jan 26 23:12
twitter	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungary	Jan 26 23:14
twitter	I know people from there and they would be angry with me.	Jan 26 23:14
schestowitz	No eggs, just goulash … http://news.softpedia.com/news/Steve-Ballmer…	Jan 26 23:14
*MinceR is from there		Jan 26 23:14
MinceR	but misspellings happen	Jan 26 23:14
twitter	bbl	Jan 26 23:14
MinceR	gn	Jan 26 23:59

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To nobody's surprise, the past half a decade saw accelerating demise in quality of European Patents (EPs) and it is the fault of Battistelli's notorious policies
Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part V: Suspension of Salary and Unfair Trials

One of the lesser-publicised cases of EPO witch-hunting, wherein a member of staff is denied a salary "without any notification"
Links 3/1/2017: Microsoft Imposing TPM2 on Linux, ASUS Bringing Out Android Phones

Links for the day
Links 2/1/2017: Neptune 4.5.3 Release, Netrunner Desktop 17.01 Released

Links for the day
Teaser: Corruption Indictments Brought Against Vice-President of the European Patent Office (EPO)

New trouble for Željko Topić in Strasbourg, making it yet another EPO Vice-President who is on shaky grounds and paving the way to managerial collapse/avalanche at the EPO
365 Days Later, German Justice Minister Heiko Maas Remains Silent and Thus Complicit in EPO Abuses on German Soil

The utter lack of participation, involvement or even intervention by German authorities serve to confirm that the government of Germany is very much complicit in the EPO's abuses, by refusing to do anything to stop them
Battistelli's Idea of 'Independent' 'External' 'Social' 'Study' is Something to BUY From Notorious Firm PwC

The sham which is the so-called 'social' 'study' as explained by the Central Staff Committee last year, well before the results came out
Europe Should Listen to SMEs Regarding the UPC, as Battistelli, Team UPC and the Select Committee Lie About It

Another example of UPC promotion from within the EPO (a committee dedicated to UPC promotion), in spite of everything we know about opposition to the UPC from small businesses (not the imaginary ones which Team UPC claims to speak 'on behalf' of)
Video: French State Secretary for Digital Economy Speaks Out Against Benoît Battistelli at Battistelli's PR Event

Uploaded by SUEPO earlier today was the above video, which shows how last year's party (actually 2015) was spoiled for Battistelli by the French State Secretary for Digital Economy, Axelle Lemaire, echoing the French government's concern about union busting etc. at the EPO (only to be rudely censored by Battistelli's 'media partner')
When EPO Vice-President, Who Will Resign Soon, Made a Mockery of the EPO

Leaked letter from Willy Minnoye/management to the people who are supposed to oversee EPO management
No Separation of Powers or Justice at the EPO: Reign of Terror by Battistelli Explained in Letter to the Administrative Council

In violation of international labour laws, Team Battistelli marches on and engages in a union-busting race against the clock, relying on immunity to keep this gravy train rolling before an inevitable crash
FFPE-EPO is a Zombie (if Not Dead) Yellow Union Whose Only de Facto Purpose Has Been Attacking the EPO's Staff Union

A new year's reminder that the EPO has only one legitimate union, the Staff Union of the EPO (SUEPO), whereas FFPE-EPO serves virtually no purpose other than to attack SUEPO, more so after signing a deal with the devil (Battistelli)