Originally Posted by
unterhausen
I have always wondered the same thing and I'm sure Cree doesn't like it, but these companies are probably pretty hard to track down to send a cease and desist letter.
Apparently some people aren't thinking this through; Cree loves the Chinese. They buy their product in bulk. The more they buy the happier the Cree stock holders are going to be. This is how business works. You sell something, someone buys it. Done. What happens with the product AFTER they are sold is not the worry of the Cree people. As long as the emitters are operated within the parameters of their designed use there is no cause for the Cree people to have a worry in the world. If someone wants to take a Cree emitter and hook it up in series to a 5A current source which burns out in two weeks ( if that long ) the Cree people will not have a worry in the world because they understand the concept, " Once sold it's your baby now, if you abused it, Que Sera, Sera". If something doesn't work because the design parameters of the sold product weren't adhered to you can't fault the people who sold the emitters.
Now on the other hand, if some how the Chinese figure a way to dismantle the emitters to produce a "Killer Death Ray" machine capable of knocking down ICBM's or any other ariel weapon system than yes, Cree would have something to worry about.