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To: konabound who wrote (18693)	2/25/2000 2:00:00 AM
From: FLSTF97	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

Elon I think you have a good point. To the elon experts: is there anything that Elon has in technology that can be considered discontinuous? If not, is there anything about their communication protocols or hardware that make them inherently better than the competitive techniques? Two things concerned me in the last 10K. First they mentioned that their OEMs were dragging their feet in pushing the Elon technology even though Elon is doing its best in motivating them. The concept being that current OEM's have other proprietary systems from which they earn good margins and service contracts. The second thing was the comment about having "open" technology and what sounded like a "royalty free" license to use most of their patents. They then subsequently state that competitors and OEM's can and are then designing system that use the protocols, but don't require buying hardware from Elon. So then the questions are: 1) What value is a value chain that is holding back deployment of your technology? 2) What level of security does Elon have that if it's bus is adopted that Elon will be able to profit from it? TIA FATBOY