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Good for you. This isn't open-source though. It's capital intensive product development and people want to be paid for their efforts.

Are you seriously suggesting that they should just work for free?




Not at all. They're free to manufacture and sell sawstop saws. They can also supply the necessary hardware to other saw makers, saving them the trouble of developing it themselves. It'd be likely cheaper to just buy the hardware than reverse-engineer it.




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