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Re: U.S. Researchers Crack Codes to ESA's Galileo GPS


From: Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 12:22:19 +0100 (BST)

On Sat, 8 Jul 2006, der Mouse wrote:

Galileo is Europe's answer to the United States' GPS.

Ummm...I mist be missing something.  How can a closed, for-pay system
be an "answer to" a wide-open system that still works perfectly well?

A) it's more accurate, and 

B) if Bush decides that open access helps the "turists" then they'll close
it, and we'll be left without a GPS unless we make our own.

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