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"with the intention of reverse-engineering the remaining parts"

this line strikes me as odd. Don't OEMs normally have a contract with Intel (or someone that does) for licensing the motherboard design that would prevent them from doing this?

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I have no idea what the contracts say, but Purism seems to be comfortable operating "outside the system" so maybe they just won't have any contract with Intel.