European Patent Office Kontrovers TV Coverage (English Version)
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2016-03-13 18:23:06 UTC
Modified: 2016-03-13 18:50:53 UTC
One man's story gets told (televised even) so that others won't have to go through what he did (implicating what EPO staff memorably calls 'Gestapo' [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7])
Summary: A television program which demonstrates the correlation between aggressive EPO management and staff suicides preserved as a cautionary tale
There are two main themes/ways in which EPO management tries to justify its abuses and iron-fisted governance approach (suicides unsurprisingly grew tenfold); one is to say about the employees that they're "well paid" (or something along those lines, as it monetary compensation exempts them from human rights) and the other is all about "results" (which is a basically a lie). ⬆
There's a tendency to think that only graphical interfaces were made to simplify usage, and any declarative interface is by design raw, inherently unfit for usage
"Richard Stallman has cancer. Fortunately it is slow-growing and manageable follicular lymphona, so he will probably live many more years nonetheless. But he now has to be even more careful not to catch Covid-19."
It's probably too later to save Julian Assange as a working publisher (he might never recover from the mental torture), but as a person and a father we can wish and work towards his release