[Meme] António Campinos Does to Europe What His Country Did to Africa

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2022-02-19 14:55:42 UTC
Modified: 2022-02-19 14:55:42 UTC

The courts won't like this...

Unitary? Unified? Guess it's time Togo to CJEU

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

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[Meme] António Campinos Does to Europe What His Country Did to Africa

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