The negativity is shocking. This is HACKER News. Elegant workarounds of limitations are usually celebrated.

IMO, this should be standard procedure. If you don't want to provide the means to build greater things off of your product, expect that others will. It's a bit ironic, given that they're using open source libraries to build their product.

Strong +1.

There’s no need to offer bad unsolicited legal advice on behalf of a mega corp. Just stop.