Comment by thereisnospork
7 months ago
But what do the goals matter? The only relevant question I can see is 'are the fingers worth the rent?'
To that point, a regulation requiring "if and only if" per unit licensing is available at (much) less than the worth of the fingers should be a no brainier.
Given the relatively small market share that SawStop enjoys, you can only assume that most people feel like the fingers aren't really worth the rent.
It's not really their choice to make though. (trivially, see seatbelts, smoking, airline regulations, ...).
Should it be? Maybe, but that's a discussion out of scope from 'is it in society's interest to mandate inclusion of sawstop's technology, or it's equivalent?'.
As of right now, it's 100% their choice to make. Next week, who knows?
A lot of people simply can’t afford their saws though.