"S Green" wrote in message


Bull**** - It is difficult to stop making the signal available to the
rest of the world

Bull**** yourself, bud. All it takes is turning off the civilian signal.
In response to the KAL007 downing in 1983, Reagan ensured that the civilian
signal would be providied gratis, but the signal was still degraded until
1996 when Clinton directed that the degradation be eliminated. Also, the
civilian signal is a separate signal from the one used by the military.

http://tinyurl.com/2va88

On providing the service for free:
"The more we looked at it, the more convinced we became that by providing
the signal free of direct user fees we would encourage technological
development and industrial growth. The benefits from that, the new jobs
created, and the increased safety and efficiency for services more than
outweighed the money we would get from charging – especially when you
consider the additional bureaucracy that would be needed to manage cost
recovery. "

http://www.southcentre.org/info/sout...letin62-11.htm

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