Surveying, Mapping and GIS: Galileo's woes...

Monday, August 21, 2006

Galileo's woes...

I hate to keep harping with my skepticism of Galileo's business model... The Space Review today echoes my own prior concerns about their business model, given the need to firewall behind encryption in order to succeed - and atop this, concerns about China pulling out as a Galileo partner and instead pursuing their own Compass project.

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