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Obsidian intentionally patched OSS sync despite CEO's HN statement of tolerance

by menthe on 9/1/23, 1:51 PM with 6 comments

  • by kepano on 9/1/23, 3:54 PM

    The patch addresses a security vulnerability.

    Obsidian is not stopping people from creating syncing alternatives (there are many that exist already), or reverse engineering the app. See comments in the issue on the repo:

    https://github.com/acheong08/obi-sync/issues/19#issuecomment...

  • by menthe on 9/1/23, 1:51 PM

    For reference, Obsidian CEO's HN comment, seven days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37253639

    Most notably, quoting his very words: "you should consider renaming the repo otherwise it can be confused for an official tool — that would be my only request".

    Looks like the corpo drones are at work again - first Reddit, Terraform, and now this - breaking a publicly-made promise, just a few days in. I gotta say, it truly reflects poorly on a business when leadership has no integrity. Who knows when they'll rug pull their community next (who, by the way, contributed 1149 plugins to Obsidian)?