Galileo Forced To Change Its name?

Kvasio writes "As several sites reported, the court of appeal in Munich (Germany) has ruled that EADS Astrium GmbH - a German unit of EU's satellite navigation local system could not name its products Galileo. Instead the Galileo International Technologies from Barbados was granted the name. Time to shift to "Copernicus navigation system" ?"

Re:Finally

[Snaller]

They named it after a great scientific mind. Even the church eventually admitted they were wrong.

Mercator

[jhdevos]

Would be my choice :)

Re:Mercator

[patdabiker]

I assume I wasn't the only one who didn't know who or what Mercator was.

Per Wikipedia [wikipedia.org], he was apparently a big map guy. Coined the term atlas and encouraged the development of the first atlas. Map making and math were his things. I think it's rather obscure, but cool too.

whos running this ship

[jago25_98]

I am the ghost of that man who once walked. I curse thee capitalists

Re:whos running this ship

[jdmetz]

Why is this offtopic? Which do you think Galileo would rather have named after him, a global positioning system or a travel agency? It seems clear to me that the cooler tech lost the Galileo name.

+5 funny

[myukew]

wow, we have like five posts here out of which 2 are "galileo was a heretic" trolls.

Mod them funny!
FYI: Not even the Pope himself believes that the earth is the middle of the universe...

Re:How about...

[BLAG-blast]

Firebird?

It's already taken, how about firefox?

same person, another name

[MySt1k]

Why not Galilei ?

Kopernik

[Madcapjack]

Copernicus is Polish. Or did I miss the irony?

Re:Kopernik

[Madcapjack]

I wasn't talking about the spelling of Copernicus. I know that Kopernik is the Polish spelling. I assumed that Kopernik was culturally Polish though.

Ptolemy

[erichill]

This is a geocentric system after all.