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)
If people can no longer acquire Computer Science education and real Computer Science experience, they will not know how to control their own digital destiny or emancipate the very same universities that now control the syllabus and instead of teaching Computer Science encourage the outsourcing of systems
"When mentioning the client side," opines an associate, "it is essential to recite the list of other markets where Microsoft is negligible or a no-show. It is repetitive to do so, but it needs saying -- often."