Easier to get features you didn’t even consider, shared testing and bug finding, and shared maintenance burden.

You even shared your code like you where inviting all of those things…

i did this for a good while. Obsidian did great.

i only migrated to mealie because I wanted a better way to share recipes in my household and quickly share them with a shared tablet in the kitchen. Needed to get it out of my personal docs.

I also kinda liked the ability import from url which saves a good 10min transcribing and cleaning up in markdown. Not that i still dont have to cleanup recipes, just it starts in a better place so its quicker.

if only there was a software concept that anticipated this and gave you the ability to own and modify your software…

the article is confusing. i don’t know if I’m missing something or its poorly written.

but if understand I dont agree. There’s providing mods that run on top if a the game, and there’s reuploading altered versions of someone’s software. Both are “modified” but are very different things.

Your branch analogy also doesn’t seem applicable. i couldn’t find any open source community for the mod and the patreon implies its closed source. so if the author doesn’t want forks, tough luck.

Dont know if thats a fair summary of the original post. Technically, it answers the clickbait question but not what it was about.

Microsoft claims its using ISO files, but writes proprietary extensions into them. That’s vendored so doesnt break the files but is outside standardization so limited interoperability and has some long term risk.

Important though, it makes libreoffice look like it doesn’t implement the standard which isn’t true.

They’re dealing with that by detecting these vendored chuncks and displaying a message block in the document and re-writing it on save to preseve it. it sounds like the wording is something similar to the blog post suggesting its a Microsoft Extension that may be supported in future releases or something but i havent seen it.

“from 2016 onwards” some of those dates after 2016 are pretty recent.