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
To Microsoft, Africa is just "someplace" to get intensive, hard-working human 'resources' (tech labour) at 2 dollars 'apiece' as in per person per hour
Hours ago in IGN: "Microsoft did not say how many staff will lose their jobs, but significant layoffs are inevitable. IGN has asked Bethesda for comment. Microsoft declined to expand further when contacted by IGN."