On Sat, 1 Oct 2011 07:57:36 -0500, "HeyBub" wrote:

wrote:
On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 19:31:33 -0500, "HeyBub"
wrote:

zzzzzzzzzz wrote:

All those inventions and new-fangled stuff that have been
legislated down our throats - seatbelts, intermittant wipers,
airbags. And forget about houses! CO and smoke detectors,
standardized stair dimensions, GFIs and AFCIs - hell, the whole
electrical panel requirement is a government-let plot to separate
people from their liberties!

There was no government mandated monopoly for any of those.

There's no proposed government monopoly for saws either. True,
there's only one product on the market that will stop a saw blade
before it does damage. \

Yes, that "law" (rule) would IN FACT make it a monopoly on the entire
industry.

But that doesn't mean others won't come along.

Have you read the patent? Do, before you comment further.

Not too many years ago, the federal government, in its infinite
wisdom, and acting in a beneficent and loving manner for all the
public, regardless of race, gender, or hair-length, mandated that
washing machine tubs stop their spin cycle in five seconds or so any
time the door was opened. Countless children (well, maybe two) are
alive today because of this ruling.

I know, the table saw ban "is for the children".

So it might be with saws.

...and you don't see a problem?

In fact, if such a ruling comes into force, it might spell the end
for SawStop! Not wanting to pay the exorbitant fees demanded by
SawStop, manufacturers will beaver their way to a non-infringing
alternative. This new technique may end up costing the saw
manufacturer fifty-cents per machine and double-dribble SawStop into
oblivion.


Read the patent.

You raise a good point, but patents can be litigated out of existence. The
ten or so saw manufacturers have, combined, access to more patent attorneys
than the owner of SawStop has friends on Facebook.

Can be, if you have MILLION$ to gamble. This one is particularly air-tight.
No one with a brain would challenge it.

While that's going on, there's money to be made.

No, there really isn't.

As soon as SawStop is mandated, one can stock up on entry-level table saws,
at, say, $90 each, while they're still available. A year or so down the
road, when entry-level table saws have disappeared from the market or sell
for $500 each, you can sell those hoarded saws on Craigslist for whatever
the market will bear.


Why would anyone sell them for $90?

Do light bulbs, instead.