[rightbyte]

> I generally like people being able to out food on the table, and if that means I have to pay for their software to use it or get updates, then I am happy to do so if that software is of value for me.

Paying money to Obsidian for writing yet another text editor seems like digging and filling holes to increase GDP to me.

[yencabulator]

Obsidian is a layer on top of https://codemirror.net/ -- they didn't write a text editor, really.

[Semaphor]

Phew, good thing it’s not a text editor.

[rightbyte]

Looks like one to me. A WYSIWYG text editor with hyper links. Like Emacs.