I don't really think it matters for a number of reasons. Chief among them being motivation. If you are motivated enough to copy this idea then you would reverse

I don't really think it matters for a number of reasons. Chief among them being motivation. If you are motivated enough to copy this idea then you would reverse engineer it as soon as you heard what they are doing without knowing exactly how, which is what I did knowing that they were based on nodejs and I know how nodejs handles buffers. Ultimately, if you are a provider of services, these or any other, you will add functionality or run the risk of being eclipsed.