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by input_sh 730 days ago
> (who is a/the creator of Obsidian)

No. He is the current CEO, an excellent communicator and definitely the right person for the job, but he wasn't there in the beginning and nothing meaningfully changed about Obsidian's philosophy since for it to be attributed solely to him.

I don't disagree with him on anything in particular, it just feels bad to see the two equated. Original devs wanted to spend their time on actually making the thing, so they hired a CEO. They even picked from the community, kepano was the developer of the most popular Obsidian theme well before he got hired, but he is absolutely not the creator of Obsidian. When he joined, Obsidian already existed.

He's also not the only community hire either, there's at least one or two more people that started as plugin developers before they got hired.

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Sounds utopian and inspiring. I hope it never gets enshitified.