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elromulous 7 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: BMW Patents Proprietary Screws That Only Dealershi...

They must have thought it's _so_ clever that the screw/bit is their logo.

rollcat 7 months ago [–]

Nintendo has done this exact thing with the GameBoy: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/q/11736

If you mess with the logo, the console locks up during boot. If you don't, you're violating the trademark.

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