Scott Moore wrote:
Roy Smith wrote On 12/05/05 07:01,:

G Farris wrote:



The Europeans are ready to use every available argument (the threat of the US
unilaterally invoking Selective Availability being their favorite) to
denigrate GPS, so as to pave the way for their competing system, Galileo.


I can't blame them. If I lived outside the US, I would be pretty wary
about depending on a navigation system which I had no control over. It's
the same battle that happening now with control of the Internet.


The "battle for control of the Internet" is far more about China wanting to
censor it than any freedom issue.

Maybe. I know in 1991 there was a large effort to build a "Chinese
internet" that would use ONLY Chinese. There was a company (StepTech,
IIRC) that was building "Chinese UNIX" for use in the large program. I
think it is a bit strange: the want an "internet" so they can be a world
player, but they want the world to switch to Chinese to talk to them. I
haven't heard from those guys in quite a while.