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)?
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...