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
IBM: Produce code for us till we buy the community... And never use "bad words" like "master" and "slave" (pioneered by IBM itself in the computing context)