In general, Framework has been extremely transparent, but they haven't given specifics about this issue. In a previous video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cJj8PUY0DU ), Louis Rossman mentions that he asked Framework why they wouldn't release schematics and was given an answer (that he deemed valid) on the condition that he couldn't publicly say what that answer is. I imagine it's because of some sort of legal agreement, either with the ODM that designed the motherboard or one or more of their chip suppliers. I doubt it's for fear of cloning, leaked schematics for products from a variety of manufacturers (Apple, Dell, Lenovo, Samsung, etc) have been available for years and you don't see any cloning going on there.
> I imagine it's because of some sort of legal agreement, either with the ODM that designed the motherboard or one or more of their chip suppliers. I doubt it's for fear of cloning, leaked schematics for products from a variety of manufacturers (Apple, Dell, Lenovo, Samsung, etc) have been available for years and you don't see any cloning going on there.
This doesn't make sense to me. If it was because of a legal agreement I imagine they'd just publicly say that they can't "for legal reasons" and everyone would just shut up about it because, hey, it's not strictly their fault, so why give them grief about it? An easy way to snip the whole "no schematics" controversy in the bud. "Sorry, we can't release them publicly for legal reasons, but for future products we'll try to negotiate with the vendors to allow it." And they're done.
But the only thing we get is radio silence, so either they don't want to explicitly say that it's "for legal reasons" (which, again, doesn't make sense to me), or because it's due to something else.
