Here is a link to the reddit post prompting this discussion:
https://old.reddit.com/r/wowaddons/c...ddon_managers/
Here is a link to the list of a dozen currently maintained alternative addon managers(Minion is one of them), the first of which clearly uses WoWI and Curse addons. I don't know if they are caching them or serving directly from WoWI/Curse's servers/CDNs.
https://github.com/ogri-la/wowman#ot...addon-managers
In fact part of the feature set of his manager is specifically to bypass monetization of addons.
I presume WoWI pays it's bills through advertising. I know Curse pays the authors of projects they host.
I remember the big firestorm of controversy years ago when WoWMatrix did this.
I can understand a manager for git hosted repos, but that is not what these are.
So what are your thoughts? Big deal? No big deal? Don't care? Tempest in a teapot? Burn em all to the ground?
Cheers!