"The enormous databases produced by PEAR provide clear evidence that human thought and emotion can produce measureable influences on physical reality."
The EU changing their stance? You must be kidding?
EU: You are ordered to provide the specifications to some of your closed protocols to other companies, so they can interopt with Windows.
MS: We'll do even better, we'll give you over 12000 pages of completely unreadable documentation to our fantastic Windows operating system!
EU: No, we would rather just have the specifications to your protocols.
MS: Ok, because you guys insist we will do something really really special. Way better than providing you with the specifications to our protocols. If you promise not to make any use of it and pay a nice fee we will let you have a look at some of the source code for Windows! Isn't that the greatest thing ever? We are so great!
EU: Great, but we'll rather just have the specifications to your protocols.
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From http://www.princeton.edu/~pear/press_release_closing.html:
"The enormous databases produced by PEAR provide clear evidence that human thought and emotion can produce measureable influences on physical reality."
I smell somehting fishy...
Do you have a link to some info about those naval games you are talking about?
Seems to be replaced by some sort of space flight simulator....
The EU changing their stance? You must be kidding?
EU: You are ordered to provide the specifications to some of your closed protocols to other companies, so they can interopt with Windows.
MS: We'll do even better, we'll give you over 12000 pages of completely unreadable documentation to our fantastic Windows operating system!
EU: No, we would rather just have the specifications to your protocols.
MS: Ok, because you guys insist we will do something really really special. Way better than providing you with the specifications to our protocols. If you promise not to make any use of it and pay a nice fee we will let you have a look at some of the source code for Windows! Isn't that the greatest thing ever? We are so great!
EU: Great, but we'll rather just have the specifications to your protocols.
Yeah and then they force you to sign a licence that includes a clause that forbids you to use the blueprints to figure out the voltage.