i personally believe those designs should be open source anyways. After what many mining companies have done to maximize their profits at the expense of the miner.. i dont really see it as stealing. Did they make their own actual boards? The case appears to be yes.. and this is likely to be the same company/families sharing the plans and making a new company. Its not exactly secret technology by any means.
it is not the same people - the guy who developed them is the one that originally stated they stole his programming, his design and basically copy/pasted his sale thread - the original poster was banned from the forums because of the plagiarism even.
This is all very interesting.. so they stole the method to fabricate the chips? Or they actually stole the microchips? Im very confused about how they went about doing that.