In article , tzipple wrote:
Not quite true, but even if it was, so what? The "free market" would
allow or reject many things that are not in the common good. If SawStop
can make a buck by using existing government mechanism that are designed
to protect the common good, what is the harm?

"Not quite true" eh? What part, exactly?

What is the harm, you ask? If you don't see the harm in using the power of the
government to force people to buy a product that they don't want, I suppose
there isn't much basis for a continued discussion.



SawStop has petitioned the Consumer Product Safety Commission to make their
proprietary technology *mandatory*. How they finance it is irrelevant. The
problem many of us have with their behavior is that having first failed in
the
marketplace, they are now attempting to use the government to force the
adoption of a product that the free market decided it didn't want.

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