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 5 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?)