Obsidian is now free for work purposes, making the commercial license optional
Obsidian, a popular app for writing and organizing your thoughts, has announced that its commercial license is now optional. Users can now utilize Obsidian for work purposes without purchasing a commercial license. Previously, companies with two or more employees were required to buy a license for work use. The commercial license remains available for organizations that wish to support the software's development, akin to the Catalyst license for individuals.
The change aims to simplify Obsidian's pricing, addressing confusion caused by previous licensing terms. This aligns with the Obsidian Manifesto, which advocates for accessible tools for clear thinking and effective idea organization for everyone. The app continues to offer all features for free, with no account requirements, ads, or tracking. Users maintain full control over their data, stored locally in plain text Markdown files.
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It's nice to see now that paying for commercial use is no longer required to use Obsidian, although you are still encouraged to purchase one just to show support. Not sure if I'm all in though considering the fact that it's closed-source, but I haven't given it a closer look yet. I'm sure people out there will have their reasons for choosing or not choosing Obsidian though...
I wonder if these posts are AI generated. Surely no news writer, especially a site admin, would mistake a clearly proprietary app for an open source one.
Don't say that! Yes they may look generic and all that, but I'm sure the news writers, especially the site admin, make mistakes every now and then.
I'm the one who wrote this article. Thanks for mentioning that! I don't know why, but I definitely thought Obsidian was open source… And I'm sure that if I had asked ChatGPT to write this news, it wouldn't have made this mistake! 😅