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Old 08-07-2010, 07:49 AM   #43
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Originally Posted by Mike_73 View Post
It's kinda free allthough I bet that license fees are included in the purchase price of any device incorporating GPS (just like the fees included in the final product price you have to pay in Germany for printers, CDs, DVDs, etc. as you could copy them or use them to create copies).
Only if you consider the taxes we Americans pay as a "fee" for the GPS system. The GPS system was built and paid for by the American military.

For further detail, I suggest this wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System
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