competition is good?

competition is good?

Posted Mar 22, 2007 19:26 UTC (Thu) by gravious (subscriber, #7662)
In reply to: competition is good? by vmole
Parent article: Linux and flash

Not valid.

China is a partner in Galileo too you know. I would say that it would be brain-damaged _not_ to construct a commercial, public non-military GPS that was not beholden to the .mil of the US of A. Of course if you like having your live run by people with an agenda antithetical to your existence then by all means do not use Galileo when it launches.

Every time I think of life post-Galileo I get the warm fuzzies. From Wikipedia "Galileo is tasked with multiple objectives including; to provide a higher precision to all users than is currently available through GPS or GLONASS, to improve availability of positioning services at higher latitudes, and to provide an independent positioning system upon which European nations can rely even in times of war or political disagreement."

Granted, original claim about NIH is prolly off-mark, humans being humans. I don't see why Europeans would be resistant to this affliction.

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