Doug Miller wrote:

In article , "ted harris"
wrote:
In newsave Hinz typed:
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Public good is _not_ their motivation. That's fine, really it is, but
pretending it is is what gets me.

You mean the way the manufacturers that won't use the technology?...

I cannot believe the **** I am reading here...

Neither can I.

Sawstop was apparently invented around 1998 or so. This guy and his
employees have been fought around every corner for the last 7 yeays by
skeptical woodworkers, and muscled by the manufacturers.

"Fought around every corner" by the woodworkers, and "muscled by the
manufacturers"? That's a bit over the top, don't you think? How, exactly,
does declining to purchase a product that doesn't exist constitute
"fighting"? How, exactly, does declining to license any particular
technology constitute "muscling"? It's not like the manufacturers of other
table saws tried to prevent SawStop from coming to market; all they did
was say "no thanks".

Looks to me like
he has devoted his life to getting this thing going.

Looks more like he has devoted his life to making a buck. Nothing wrong
with that, of course, but he's not exactly a philanthropist.

Now, after almost a
decade of rejection, sawstop is delivering saws as we speak.

Name one person, just *one*, who actually has one in his shop. I may have
missed it, but I haven't seen any evidence so far that they have yet
shipped any product to customers.

I wonder how
many times Steve Gass had to borrow money to feed his family and keep the
electricity on?

My money is on "zero". The guy's a lawyer, for pete's sake, and the United
States isn't exactly overrun with starving lawyers.

You might be surprised. I used to work with an engineer who had passed the
bar--engineering paid better. I used to have a secretary who had passed
the bar. A friend of mine is married to a graduate of Yale Law School who
has successfully defended asbestos suits. He hasn't worked in about ten
years. There was a time when everybody who could went to law school
planning to get rich quick, with the result that lawyers became a glut on
the market. Not saying that Gass is one of the starving ones, but "passed
the bar" != "well off financially".

I'll be that even now he is in debt up to his eyeballs.

You probably lose that bet too.

He believes in this technology so much that he stuck his finger in it
twice.

Granted...

Someday, all you naysayers and the rest of the world will view this
technology as one of the most important advances in rotational cutting
safety.

Keeping my fingers away from the freakin' blade is enough rotational
cutting safety to keep me happy.

Enough of your ridiculous conspiracy theories!

What "ridiculous conspiracy theories" are you referring to? I mean,
besides "fought around every corner... by skeptical woodworkers" and
"muscled by the manufacturers."

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