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Sasquatch@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨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🤷‍♂️

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NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨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

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ericwdhs@discuss.online ⁨9⁩ ⁨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).

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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.

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