Summary: The EPO became a very unprofessional workplace, where the head of operations repeatedly uses the F word and promotes people for complicity (e.g. propelling European software patents and violating the European Patent Convention (EPC))
From campaigner against software patents to paid Microsoft shill to "FOSS patents" (actually attacking FOSS) to revisionism as "books" (for Microsoft)... and now this
Microsoft already fired about 5,000-6,000 workers this year by our estimates; that's not counting resignations compelled through pressure (i.e. pushed, did not jump) and contractors