[brandon_wirtz]

Was this in English? Maybe that would help explain how the author got so much wrong.

I love API's. I love sharing API's with others. I might have even gone along with the article if it said that API's were the best way to show that you have a technology that isn't patentable and enforce a measure of control over it.

You could write a TOS that says that users of the API can't reverse engineer, compete with for a period of one year, blah, blah, blah.

As such you could rope some companies which would do some "build or buy" research in to using your API and then not being able to not use you after.

I don't really believe that, but I could at minimum not faulted the author for this belief.

This article is just a piece of marketing filled with misinformation and poorly written. Don't take any legal advice from it, and don't take any business advice from it.