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>>So you're explicitly soliciting pirated intellectual property?
>>AFAIK, Microchip hasn't licensed their chips to any second sources,
>>so any exact equivalents not from microchip are pretty much by
>>definition "stolen."
> 
> 
> I'm interested to hear the details about this intellectual property. 
> What patents or copyrights are being violated if I do a clean room
> reverse engineering of the PICMicro in question, then start producing
> it as a second source?


"Second source" was born by the industry after the US-army only bought 
products made of parts from several suppliers. So a lot of 
chip-producers made contracts to give their plans to there partners.

Second source is not "robbery" it was well planned...

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