Originally Posted by Navarill
With a minimal understanding of IP and copyright law, combined with a glance at the ESOUI terms of service, it should be obvious that nobody is entitled to access the API. Simply put: ESOUI is private property and not yours or mine to take (in this context, "access" = "take").
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Private property hosting everyone else's addons. Don't forget that. ESOUI cannot exist without it's addon devs nor without the content they make.
Originally Posted by wookiefriseur
The monopoly emerged naturally. At first there were multiple managers being used like Curseforge and NexusMods. But that meant that developers had to upload to multiple portals. In a parallel universe NexusMods came out on top .. or most addon authors host on GitHub and the AddonManagers just manage lists and the download process. But in this universe ESOUI just became the go to place. That's just how it goes.
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So this wasn't what I was talking about with in terms of 'monopolies'. I understand how one addon sites becomes more dominant over another.
My issue is with monopolizing the use of the API and restricting it to Minion.