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shmoogy 4 hours ago

Obsidian isn't open source

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echelon 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm still happy to use it. It's not like they can rug pull on the data or even the existing app binaries.

I'd really like to see the team get rewarded for their work, too. I'd be sad if it went 100% open and they didn't so much as draw a market salary from it.

I think if it went open, they'd get nothing. That's the one thing I strongly dislike about open source is that only hyperscalers really economically benefit from it.

They've done a remarkable service for all of us.

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alabhyajindal 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I used to be very against closed source products but changed my mind recently. One of the founders of Obsidian makes some great points here: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/open-sourcing-of-obsidian/1515/1...

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stronglikedan 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> The cost to benefit ratio is very low for our small team of 2, and our plate is already full.

Wow, I didn't know the team was so small - go them!

	▲	wsve an hour ago \| parent [-]
		It was that small in 2020, it's more in the 5-10 range these days

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echelon 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This is a great rebuttal.

99.9% of the internet is closed source and we don't ask for it to be opened. From our ISPs, to Google, to the hyperscalers.

If anything, I think we should be asking those things to be open. If we're only asking the little guys, the big guys with trillion dollar market caps skate by. This is exactly how they want it. Fewer gradients for small players to grow.

	▲	hexo 4 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I do ask for that and generally refuse to use closed source sw. But... something being opensource doesnt always mean you can change stuff. Like signal-desktop that has build process so badly convoluted that even gentoo doesnt build it itself. (has it improved already?)

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braza 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> It's not like they can rug pull on the data or even the existing app binaries.

This.

I spend 6 months to export 100K notes from Evernote mostly because they intentionally throttle the exports to a limit and you can extract it only in their proprietary format that truncates some data.