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[Meme] EPO Funding Microsoft and the War Against Ukraine

The facts are clear to see, but where are the national broadcasters? Too busy bagging EPO bribes for EIA puff pieces?

EPO Developers Developers Developers; Microsoft resellers in Belarus
If only Ukrainians knew....



Summary: The EPO's Belarusian blunder (more below) is still 100% uncovered -- as in NOT covered -- by the mainstream media (or any site other than Techrights for that matter)

More on the Belarusian blunder:

  1. From Belarus With Love — Part I: Schizophrenic EPO Policy
  2. From Belarus With Love — Part II: “Techwashing” an Autocratic Regime?
  3. From Belarus With Love — Part III: Apps From the Dictatorship
  4. From Belarus With Love — Part IV: “Software from Minsk” via Gilching and Rijswijk
  5. From Belarus With Love — Part V: From Start-Up to Success Story...
  6. From Belarus With Love — Part VI: “Big Daddy” Hammers the Opposition...
  7. From Belarus With Love — Part VII: The Post-Election Crackdown
  8. From Belarus With Love — Part VIII: “Seoul in the Centre of Pyongyang”
  9. From Belarus With Love — Part IX: The End of “Peaceful Coexistence”?
  10. From Belarus With Love — Part X: From “High-Tech Hub” to “No-Go Zone”
  11. From Belarus With Love — Part XI: SaM's Management Remains Suspiciously Silent
  12. From Belarus With Love — Part XII: Alexander Deev's “Provocative” Comments
  13. From Belarus With Love — Part XIII: Marat Ebzeev Tries to Defuse the Situation
  14. EPO Virtue-Signalling on the Ukrainian Front
  15. Like Batka, Like Son
  16. The EPO Has Become Copycat of Lukashenko's Regime of Terror, and It Moreover Violates Laws, Constitutions, Even the European Patent Convention (EPC)

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