diff --git a/src/Mod/AddonManager/addonmanager_workers.py b/src/Mod/AddonManager/addonmanager_workers.py
index 562141a905..f1fe3bcee4 100644
--- a/src/Mod/AddonManager/addonmanager_workers.py
+++ b/src/Mod/AddonManager/addonmanager_workers.py
@@ -421,7 +421,7 @@ class ShowWorker(QtCore.QThread):
                         p = p.decode("utf-8")
                     u.close()
                     desc = utils.fix_relative_links(p, readmeurl.rsplit("/README.md")[0])
-                    if NOMARKDOWN or not have_markdown:
+                    if not NOMARKDOWN and have_markdown:
                         desc = markdown.markdown(desc, extensions=["md_in_html"])
                     else:
                         message = """