Summary: "The Slave Coast" of France (birthplace of António Campinos, just like Benoît Battistelli in spite of the Portuguese- and Italian-sounding surnames) can possibly relate to what Team UPC is trying to do through the Francophonie/Germanic/Anglo-Saxon EPO, imposing European software patents on EU member states by bypassing their national courts (illegally!) and turning software developers into serfs, with sharecropping [1, 2, 3] like in Microsoft GitHub
In the case of Rust, instead of "the liberation of the digital society" we have empowerment of Microsoft GitHub and of GAFAM in general. Guess who funds this...
It would be interesting to see some charts, based on some long-term study, comparing the general health (blood pressure, BMI etc.) of people who use proprietary stuff and people who do not
