Summary: A quick look at the (relative) irrelevance of Baltic states to the EPO, where they enjoy a vote as powerful as that of the UK, France, Germany and other large economies with hundreds of thousands of patents
"The national Patent Offices of the Baltic States publish official statistics relating to "IP" protection," a reader has told us. "Most of the registration activity is in the area of "trademarks" and "designs", with very little under "patents"."
One common concern when things go "live" is that any random bot out there can execute queries, pumping up RAM and CPU usage, as happened when we used MediaWiki and WordPress
In short, it's not too clear what Microsoft has just done except dumping GitHub - i.e. mostly a Web site that loses a ton of money (it always lost money) - into some mysterious new bucket