Re:Siyuan: Privacy-first, self-hosted personal knowledge man...
by jraph on Thursday December 26, 2024 @01:17AM
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Open source / Free software comes with all the usual benefits:
- you can fork and adapt to your needs
- should the original authors stop developing it or take a direction you don't like but your started depending on it, someone can take over the development of a fork
- you can study how it works
- you can reuse some of the code to build an alternative product
- you can contribute patches if the project accepts them
- if you have to migrate, even if the format is specific, you can at least check how it works
That thing being open source is a big plus, and Obsidian using a standard format is a big plus.
- you can fork and adapt to your needs
- should the original authors stop developing it or take a direction you don't like but your started depending on it, someone can take over the development of a fork
- you can study how it works
- you can reuse some of the code to build an alternative product
- you can contribute patches if the project accepts them
- if you have to migrate, even if the format is specific, you can at least check how it works
That thing being open source is a big plus, and Obsidian using a standard format is a big plus.