What's your point? Torx, just like Philips were both originally licensed designs, it's just that the patents have expired. When Torx showed up in 1967, Philli

What's your point? Torx, just like Philips were both originally licensed designs, it's just that the patents have expired. When Torx showed up in 1967, Phillips were surely considered "standard" as the patent had been gone for 18 years. Today, the Torx patent has been up for 22 years. I expect that when encountering Torx for the first time in 1967 people ignorantly made the same assumption, that it was non-standard for the sake of being non-standard.