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These people hollering about Glass making money from an amazing invention are clearly not offended by all of the hand surgeons making money off of preventable amputations. Would you rather pay after the accident or pay to prevent it? And let's not pretend that society as a whole does not pay for the 10 amputations a day in terms of increased medical insurance, lost productivity, and the like. I should think that rewarding an inventor is a much better use of our money than paying for post-accident medical problems. Once all saws have some sort of a blade brake then the cost per unit will drop.

Fine Woodworking is on the wrong side of this one. Their review of the Unisaw a year or so ago did not point out the obvious---the saw is obsolete out of the box because it lacks the saw stop feature. And Mr. McKenna's entry is clearly skeptical---the email alerting us to the blog entry said, "Are the woodworking community's fears of higher prices finally coming to fruition?" This conveys a completely backward sense of priorities. It appears that, rather than protecting the hands of woodworkers, FWW is in bed with the manufacturers who are going to pay plenty because of their foolishness in resisting what is obviously a great idea and one that, I'll bet, will be ubiquitous in ten years if not before.