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Default Why are torx screws so expensive?



"Commander Kinsey" wrote in message
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On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 17:57:22 -0000, Rod Speed
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"Commander Kinsey" wrote in message
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On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 01:33:22 -0000, micky
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In alt.home.repair, on Mon, 27 Jan 2020 14:50:52 -0000, "Commander
Kinsey" wrote:

Pack of PZ2 screws, £10.
Pack of identical screws, but with a torx head, £50.
WTF?

Still under patent??

How can you patent a star shape?


It isnt the shape that's patented, it's
the use of that shape for a screw head.


How childish. It's way too basic a thing to copyright.


Copyright and patent are completely different.

You can in fact get rights to a particular color.

Wasn't that invented by the universe, mother nature, god, or something?


So was wifi. But patentable anyway.


Wifi is infinitely more complicated than a star shape on a piece of metal.