If you are interested in privacy you are probably interested in password storage … plus I wanted everyone to know about the inevitable future enshitification of this product. Spread the word and replacement recommendations are welcome too.

  • DashboTreeFrog@discuss.online
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    3 days ago

    This is really disappointing… I figured the open source nature of Bitwarden would save it from enshittification but as the author says, in the end, the company doesn’t need to keep it open source.

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      21 hours ago

      That’s the difference between libre software and merely open source software.

      Libre licenses make it hard or impractical to close the source at a later date.

      Open source licenses are much more permissive and allow any entity to produce a closed source derivation at any time.

      Libre licenses are all about strategically protecting the software commons from privatization.

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      2 days ago

      As soon as VC money comes in, the founders cash out and the enshittification begins as the VC will be expecting returns on their money.