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 United Kingdom, the Foreign Enlistment Act 1819 and the Foreign Enlistment Act 1870 make it unlawful for British subjects to join the armed forces of any state warring with another state at peace with Britain."