DIYbanter - View Single Post - Consumer Products Safety Commision - New table saw rules on the horizon.(sawstop, et. al.)

ChairMan[_2_]

zzzzzzzzzz wrote:
On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:40:49 -0400, "Mike Marlow"
wrote:

zzzzzzzzzz wrote:

The reason I wouldn't is *exactly* this discussion. Nice
hardware, crap company.

I disagree. they are a for profit company. It's to their
advantage to leverage everything they can to command market
share.
Most of the discussions here are far too altruistic - as if Saw
Stop should be doing something more "nobel". Hell - they're
about
making money. God bless them for going for it in what ever way
they can do it. Don't understand why anyone would call them a
crap
company.

Wrong! I don't do business with unethical companies. Period.

I guess it's all in what one considers unethical.

Inventing a widget, getting the government to require said widget,
and refusing to sell said widget freely, is unethical to most normal
minds. Yes, Gass makes the Snidely Whiplash list. Nope, not going
to happen.

Well - they did try to sell it long before they went the route of the
government approach.

gvnmt has no business in my choice of tools, period.