It's true that paths to monetization exist for open source software, but they usually aren't accessible to an individual developer who is building a small bootstrapped side-project to generate small amounts of passive income. you're pretending that they've promised to make it extensible at the expense of _everything_ else, and that assumption in context in unfounded. 'as possible' is a qualifier, it clearly means 'as extensible as possible without undermining other goals'. Please don't say the wording is the problem. in the spectrum between 'i want to extract money from the users of this product' and 'i want this product to be used as the users see fit', i would say this product's goals lean towards the latter. you're demanding an awful lot for something that 'improves extensibility by even 0.0000001%'. they chose a path to profit with all of these goals in mind. Someone created something that they'd like to make a little money off of, while still taking very extensive steps to make it available, extensible, and prevent lock in. Read the story of the project and the team: Obsidian is a powerful front-end for your knowledge, like an IDE for your notes. This leads to our three fundamental values of Obsidian:ġ. We also noticed how personal note-taking and knowledge management is, so we built Obsidian to be very extensible from the start, and let you put together your own workflow with plugins like daily notes and page preview as building blocks. Obsidian supports ] between your notes out of the box, and provide a powerful graph view and backlink pane to help you understand your knowledge. We believe you second brain should work similarly to your own brain and connections are crucial in thinking. As you put in more notes and make more connections, the knowledge base gets more valuable, so we think it's important that you can 100% own your data and not rely on any cloud services. We made Obsidian to be your long-term second brain and personal knowledge base.

Obsidian is going into public beta today! (We're also on Product Hunt, come check us out!) Maker here, excited to be on Hacker News.

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