Re:Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian
by 0x696C6961 on Monday May 18, 2026 @11:00AM
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The burden of OSS is dealing with PRs that you don't want to merge. The drive by bug fixes don't compensate for that.
Re:Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian
by bonesss on Monday May 18, 2026 @11:49AM
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There is no obligation to maintain, no obligation to merge. Copyright is just that, copy right, it’s not an entitlement.
Free as in beer and free as in speech means those ‘contributors’ are also free as in Linus to go fork themselves.
Don’t like it? Go fork, yourself. Want it different? Pay, money, make, it, happen. Don’t like paying? Go fork, yourself, harder.
Re:Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian
by mgfist on Monday May 18, 2026 @10:53AM
(#48180757)
Obsidian has a number of full time employees who all want to eat and afford rent
Re:Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian
by alwillis on Monday May 18, 2026 @11:24AM
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> Obsidian has a number of full time employees who all want to eat and afford rent
They have lots of sponsors [1]; you can pay $4/month for sync service or $50 a year, per person for a commercial license.
I have a problem, I spend a few days building a tool that solves the problem, it works pretty well for me, and I release it to let others get value from it. They make tweaks to it, perhaps improve it, and I get value from those enhancements and bugfixes.