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Comment by sahaskatta | Hacker News Reader

Hi, I'm the CEO of Smartcar. While I can't go into exact details, I can say from what we know so far: this occurred out of their main headquarters.

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Can you clarify? "Out of" can mean either "outside of" or "within" weirdly enough.

I think in this context it means within.

It means the production of the items in question came out of the location specified.

Good to see that I am being down voted for my accent/dialect.

I didn't down-vote you, but I imagine it's because you just repeated "out of" without explicitly clarifying which definition was meant (though it's more obvious in your version, at least to a native speaker).

For what it's worth, the usage here means "from within."

Right but the parent's point is its not just the API documentation but the API itself that strongly mirrors your product?

So Otonomo took down their API.

Can you confirm that more of their API other than the authorization code was duplicated? Honestly duplicating auth APIs are perfectly fine. If you showed proof of business APIs being duplicated, I'd have more faith in your claim. Right now this looks like a publicity stunt on a baseless argument.

> Honestly duplicating auth APIs are perfectly fine.

You don't get to say this.

Unless I'm going crazy. I guess we have a big industry problem around auth then. We only have some many types/ways to implement auth and we all use them.

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