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Miguel seems to be the only person currently getting paid to work on [http://documentation.wikia.com/wiki/METRo METRo] by the Federal Government, but I believe that the service METRo can provide is of great importance. Snowy roads during Canadian winters cause a lot of damage, and better road prediction can help minimize tragedy. Meteorological companies can sell to media companies who display real-time road condition maps. The media companies in-turn sell advertising time/space to consumer product companies. The value provided by the meteorological companies depends on the accuracy of predictions; accuracy governs audience for METRo in the given scenario.
If Google could get behind something like this and display road conditions on gMaps, I would use it. A third party using METRo output to host several on-board driving advisory car devices might be very lucrative.
The important thing to consider with METRo is that it is small in terms of project size. With only one dedicated developer (who is admittedly spends very little time on the project) there is a lot of room to become a 'player' in this project. The problem with the small project size is the maintenance/upgrade demand for this software needs to be marketed and cultivated before it can sustain any dedicated developers.
Everything about the METRo project contrasts starkly to XEN and the work Novell and Microsoft are doing.
XEN is huge,
== Conclusion ==