When Company A buys stuff from Company B, all existing agreements and contracts concerning that assett with external parties must remain in force when the assett is transferred. CNPT can't just change the playing field on an agreement already in effect.
Now, CNPT may be less likely to renew certain agreements that may have an expiration date than Novell may have been, but any agreement with an expiration is an at risk deal anyway, no matter who the original agreement was with.
The original post doesn't say anything about limiting his readings to books announcing initial discoveries.
The Bryson book illuminates the context and connections between hundreds of scientific discoveries, as well as some of the coincidences or dumb luck that helped them come about. It somehow manages to do so in an engaging and entertaining fashion.
Keep in mind, also that many
At 6000Kwh one 3.3 meter diameter windmill could nearly power a US household. Add to that that the vertical shaft orientation lets you put the generator on the ground without an efficiency sapping 90 degree CV joint, plus it lets you increase capacity by adding another blade-set above the existing two without an increas in diameter (just height and horizontal loading).
So, that design seems to be the most promising to me unless I have gotten something wrong, which I'm sure someone will point out!
So What?... As long as they begin to publish true measured figures (Idle & Loaded) as opposed to some guess that they would make, then spin in the marketing department, no-one can complain if their own results vary. All the manufacturer can do is publish what they can measure. Any specific user who claims that their performance differs needs to understand that that there is no more reliable way to predict performance for their specific situation. Therefor, this can only be seen as an improvement.
If there was an actual place and society that inspired the fictional tale of morals and corruption spun by Plato, it was most likely the Minoan civlization on Santorini and Crete from around 1600 BC. It was an advanced (for the time) civilization wiped out (or at least dispersed forever) by the cataclismic eruption of the caldera that formed the ring structured island. This link has oner of the better discussions of the issue without all the hyperbol and passion that many 'seekers' often display.
http://www.decadevolcano.net/santorini/atlantis.htm
It's a naive, domestic operating system without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.