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What is freeman packing? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by Pharmacokinetics to c/sourcememes

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Lol, Gore-tex isn't real. It's just teflon, and they stopped using the patent decades ago. It's just a brand name.

Downvotes from people who don't know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGEzJJYiROk

TL;DW: the Gore-Tex expanded PTFE (expanded teflon) patent was made in 1978. The patent expired in 1998. 25 years ago. Anyone can make it now, without using the Gore-Tex brand. However, there are numerous issues with teflon - particularly in a moving fabric. You don't want to break teflon off your frying pan and eat it, or for teflon to get into the environment (the place that most people wearing Gore-Tex would go). So instead, Gore-Tex switched to the more conventional materials that other manufacturers were using to compete with Gore-Tex.

Gore-Tex is now just a brand name. They don't offer anything but a higher price tag.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah, but showing Gore-Tex as some futuristic material is straight out of the 90s. There was a whole Seinfeld episode making fun of it.