On Wednesday, February 8, 2017 at 4:40:20 PM UTC-6, Leon wrote:

The man offered all the companies the licensing rights. none took him up

The other companies were betting against this getting off the ground and
lost, lost really big. One was about to pull the trigger to get the
license and got cold feet. I would imagine that the cost was not too
much for them but probably pulled out when every one else looked the
other way. I bet they are kicking themselves in the butt now.

Either way the patents will run out sooner than later.


Not sure they are kicking themselves or not. Any competent company looked at the cost for the license, cost for the extra material/technology to build the saw, and did some kind of estimate for potential sales and/or gains from having the SawStop on their saws. They decided it did not make economic sense to buy the SawStop license because the return/profit would not be enough.

SawStop is a going concern now. But no one knows how much money the company is making. No one knows how many table saws are being sold. Total number of SawStops sold and total of all table saws sold. New and used. Cost per saw. Only this Gass person knows how much he could have sold the SawStop technology to a company and how much he is making as a business. Money decides whether it was smart or foolish to do it the way he did. He could easily be kicking himself if he was offered ten million for the license and refused, and then opened his own business and is only making one hundred thousand net. He will have to run his business for 100 years to break even.