On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 20:45:50 GMT, "The Other Funk"
wrote:

Finding the keyboard operational
Dave Bugg entered:

Upscale wrote:

I didn't say that, don't put words in my mouth. And, if what I read
about Sawstop's inventor, those were not his first actions. I'm much
more inclined to believe the talk that the manufacturer's attempted
to freeze him out because it would eat into their profits. After
that, anything goes in my books.

Where is it written that any manufacturer is obligated to incorporate
any specific technology into their product? Saw manufacturers are
certainly entitled to take a pass on Sawstop, regardless of reason.
Wow, big conspiracy.


Seat belts, air bags and catalytic converters on cars. Burst disks on
pressurized gas tanks. GFIs on portable air conditioners. Deadman devices on
lawnmowers. Childproof caps on medicines.
That's all I could come up with in 5 minutes.
Bob

Which of these items doubled or tripled the cost of a lower end
version of the equipment they were put onto? Which of these mandates
effectively eliminated the lower end of the product catagory to which
they were mandated? I see no way to continue to sell $100 tablesaws if
a Sawstop device had to be incorporated. His patents on similar
technology for bandsaws, CMS, and other whirling woodworking equipment
would similarly eliminate the low end of those markets as well (in my
opinion of course). When you add up the costs of airbags, seatbelts,
cat converters, crumple zones, padded dashes, etc., etc., etc. you do
in fact add substantially to the cost of a car, but I doubt that 1/2
or so of the cost of the lowest end vehicle out there is made up of
all of these mandated items combined, let alone any one of them - and
I believe that the automobile is one of the more regulated and safety
mandated consumer products around. BTW I can buy medicine in bottles
without childproof caps but few if any manufacturers will use them for
over the counter medications.

Dave Hall