The GPS wars have begun

Re:The GPS wars have begun by lolc on Sunday December 23, 2018 @07:21AM (#18745708)

In my view the perspective of the author is needlessly antagonistic. China is only demanding inclusion of their own Beidou system, with no mention of banning other systems. As others here have pointed out: That Beidou receivers could be banned in the U.S. seems to be baseless speculation on part of the author.

The good news: There will be four competing global positioning systems available to consumers. They're motivated to operate their systems out of strategic military and economic reasons.

To call this a war is uncalled for. It's an arms-race with civilian benefits. It would be a war if they jammed or destroyed each other's satellites.

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Re:The GPS wars have begun by notacoward on Sunday December 23, 2018 @08:21AM (#18745923)

> To call this a war is uncalled for

Agreed. It reminds me of a saying:

"To those accustomed to privilege, equality seems like an attack."

This isn't exactly privilege, but same principle. The US has been used to defining the category. Now they don't. To the insecure that seems like a threat, not a move toward the federated kind of system it should always have been.

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