Aeronaut wrote: First mover has a legal monopoly by default, Brian. By dominating the field, I can enforce reasonable pricing for all parties as opposed to corporate pricing. John D. Rockefeller built Standard Oil on a similar model: to provide high quality fuels at low price to nearly any point on the planet.
That’s a de facto monopoly, no legal barriers to anyone else. Considering the world-wide market will be for millions of FFs, no individual firm could ramp up fast enough to monopolize anything.
As for pricing, if there are multiple suppliers, competition will take care of that.
