I’ve always assumed 2nd party is just when the 1st party sells you a 3rd party’s goods/services.
Kinda like subcontracted?
I used to get my old Oneplus phones repairs scheduled through the Oneplus website, but I was just given a shipping label for a different company in texas. I consider that 2nd party🤷♂️
From my understanding, the first and second parties are the seller (Valve) and the buyer (you). They are the two who have a contract between them. A third party, then, is any party which isn’t signed on the contract. That is, an outsider to the contract.
Any other meaning of second party is probably a back-formation from a misunderstanding of the terms 1st and 3rd party.
Disclaimer: I literally have no idea what I’m talking about
As far as I understand it, there’s no actual “official” definition. Second-party can mean both:
From the main supplier but retaining a different supplier’s branding (as opposed to rebranding, which makes it first-party again even if the manufacturer doesn’t change).
OR
The buyer, analogous to the second-person point of view (“you”), so in that context, a second-party battery would be one you build yourself.
Sasquatch@lemmy.ml 11 hours ago
I’ve always assumed 2nd party is just when the 1st party sells you a 3rd party’s goods/services.
Kinda like subcontracted?
I used to get my old Oneplus phones repairs scheduled through the Oneplus website, but I was just given a shipping label for a different company in texas. I consider that 2nd party🤷♂️
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 7 hours ago
From my understanding, the first and second parties are the seller (Valve) and the buyer (you). They are the two who have a contract between them. A third party, then, is any party which isn’t signed on the contract. That is, an outsider to the contract.
Any other meaning of second party is probably a back-formation from a misunderstanding of the terms 1st and 3rd party.
Disclaimer: I literally have no idea what I’m talking about
ericwdhs@discuss.online 10 hours ago
As far as I understand it, there’s no actual “official” definition. Second-party can mean both:
From the main supplier but retaining a different supplier’s branding (as opposed to rebranding, which makes it first-party again even if the manufacturer doesn’t change).
OR
The buyer, analogous to the second-person point of view (“you”), so in that context, a second-party battery would be one you build yourself.