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To: Wayne who wrote (8121)	2/26/2000 7:07:00 PM
From: Thotdoc	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10081

I am trying to understand them. I have read them. However, this is not my area of expertise so that I do not understand the alternative approaches one might use to develop agent processes that would get around GMI's patent. So, on RB writing as GordonD, I have suggested that we as a group write a list of questions that we wish to have ansered during the conference call, that we sent the organization those questions during th ecoming week, that we tell them who will be asking the questions during the CC--so that they are prepared. My sense is that they are too close to the situation, it is too clear to them, to understand how confused all of this is to investors. We need to prompt them to give out the information. Either the patents are important or they are not. I'd like to know. Voice recognition is interesting and anyone with the money can but the software and implement simple searches. For instance I can call a broker and press keyes or talk to get stock information. Id rather talk, ie use VR. However, what I really want is to tell my agent to continuously moniter the ticker during the day, to let me know if X stock has peaked--using this rule--and if that happens to call me so I can sell. VR vs agent technology by GMI. The first is an interesting commodity. The latter is the Holy Grail. Facilitating the convergence of computers as helpers in a sophisticated way is going to be worth a lot of money, but it is something that not everyone wants NOW or is willing to pay for NOW. So when a Bell buys something cheaper, it doesn't bother me. Eventually, everyone wants a HAL and will pay for it. Re the patents. Do the patents allow GMI to build what eventually will be HAL? Do they keep others from building what will be Hal? Stay tuned. If yes to the former, be long and wait. Your grand children will be rich off the splits. If not, .....it's a good play. Figure when to get out.