Summary: The EPO's very own kangaroo court is said to be scheduled for June, but any sane person knows that it's both illegal and unconstitutional, certainly in violation of several conventions (not that Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos ever let German law, the European Patent Convention etc. get in their way); the European Union (EU) will be a causality of such forceful introduction of an illegal court system (emboldening EU critics/sceptics) , which puts Battistelli and Campinos in the same class as Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin (Battistelli and Campinos also funded Belarus -- a fact they want to distract from)
In a healthy company, the CEO and CFO would get sacked on the spot for doing so. But IBM is not a healthy company, it's just a sick cow being milked to death.
"Considering Stallman worked in the MIT AI lab in the era of symbolic AI, and has written GCC (an optimizing compiler is a kind of symbolic reasoner imo), I think he has a deeper understanding of the question than most famous people in tech."
