On 2010-08-13, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

Your small minded opinion. The future is not over yet. Lets talk later.

Some patents are rock solid. Bonney tools invented the flank drive
box wrench and had a lock on it for the patent's entirety. The patent
has since expired and now everybody and their dog makes some version
of it. When the patent was valid, Bonney had such a lock on it, most
ppl didn't even know flank drive existed.

nb