Hi, I love Obsidian. It's part of my daily routine since a year or so, and I use it to store all my work and personal notes for the future. The main reason I use it is because of its note storage method. Instead of relying on a database, it utilizes plain text files written in Markdown, as most of you already know.
However, I have a strange feeling about it not being open source. The recent events with Reddit have only increased this discomfort. My notes are in plain Markdown, so I have the assurance that no one can forbid me from accessing them. I also take precautions by creating multiple backups, which provides additional security against virtual loss if I handle things correctly (which I do).
That being said, I would love to have alternatives like Joplin or LogSeq that adhere to the same philosophy of work as Obsidian.
Joplin is not suitable for me due to its reliance on database storage. I prefer to have total control over my notes.
On the other hand, LogSeq is more focused on serving as a diary rather than a personal knowledge manager, and it does not use pure markdown, wich will be a problem in the future when (not if) I'll need to migrate out of LogSeq.
My personal opinion is that I am ok with it not being open source, as long as it's worked on/ still a product they take care about.
I feel like what the product is, is simply a Shiny Text editor that is kind of self aware and can connect with plugins.
They work on it and we have quite constant updates, and it feels like at least to me, a bit more than a personal project, but a real work, where people can pay to get premium support, can pay for their syncing service, and can pay for a website version, which would be at least more complicated if it was open source
Now if they where to have the company dying for some reason, I'd love from them to give the app to the community and make it open source Or if they where to sell to like Microsoft, I'd love that they give us a copy of the last version before selling to the company