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As so many people have pointed out over the last few years, building your product on top of someone else's product is a bad idea unless you have a legally-binding agreement in-place. And having an api key isn't a substitute for such an agreement.

If this principle had a name (ie "<someone's> law") then maybe people would pay more attention.

(And OT: I read "boxopus" as "box o' pus", which makes me think perhaps its a poor name)




im not sure why anyone would want to build an app on a platform that lets you log in to any users account without a password... maybe something low risk like hosting torrent downloads




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