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How does third parties disassembling and reselling parts equate to licensing a cpu design?

• olliej 7y ago
  A most of the time the third parties are sourcing from recovered parts, they’re dealing in parts stolen from factories. But you are right - if they did gets the parts from a different device they should be allowed to reuse them freely.
  • TeMPOraL 7y ago
    > A most of the time the third parties are sourcing from recovered parts, they’re dealing in parts stolen from factories. Wonder if there's any data on that. Given the extent to which China recycles electronics (some of which I've seen myself), it wouldn't surprise me if China-sourced replacement components were actually recovered from discarded devices.
    • olliej 7y ago
      Apple also has refurbishment programs that tear down and rebuild devices, I suspect some of those refurb parts are reported to Apple as being destroyed but then sold.