Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source

600 upvotes and only 10 downvotes on literal fake news. I wish readers were less lazy, it’s very frustrating.

Edit: made my statement a bit less toxic. I was mad.

This is an important issue IMO that needs to be addressed and the official response by Bitwardens CTO fails to do so.

There is not even a reason provided why such a proprietary license is deemed necessary for the SDK. Furthermore this wasn’t proactively communicated but noticed by users. The locking of the Github Issue indicates that discussion isn’t desired and further communication is not to be expected.

It is a step in the wrong direction after having accepted Venture Capital funding, which already put Bitwardens opensource future in doubt for many users.

This is another step in the wrong direction for a company that proudly uses the opensource slogan.

can we start reading the articles and not just the headlines??? it literally says it's a packaging bug

EDIT: The article has been updated and it was described as a “packaging bug” and not an intended change.

How many times do I need to pack up and move to the next “best option”

Oh, for fuck’s sake. Can we have a decent password manager that isn’t tied to a browser or company? I pay for Bitwarden. I’m not being cheap. But open source is more secure. We can look at the code ourselves if there’s a concern.

Update: Bitwarden posted to X this evening to reaffirm that it's a "packaging bug" and that "Bitwarden remains committed to the open source licensing model."

According to Bitwardens post here, this is a "packaging bug" and will be resolved.

Daniel García, owner of the Vaultwarden repo, has recently taken employment for Bitwarden.

The plot thickens.

Vaultwarden updated link

Open source version of bitwarden written in rust.

Where is the foundation to support foss?!?

Great, I've just started to use it last week 🤡

Goddammit. It's getting to the point I'm going to have to figure out how to write my own app for this.

I wonder~ I wonder~ I wonder whyyyy...

Keepass vault synced over syncthing.

I keep not regretting it.

Some guy at bitwarden clicks a button wrong on a license drop-down option and all these people crawl out of the woodwork to declare the end of bitwarden being trustworthy. Nothing in the article or the company's statements indicates an actual move away from open source. Big nothingburger

This is disheartening.

Well this ain't good. I don't really feel like switching apps.

so what's the best pw manager?

I'm going to keep using Bitwarden because KeepassXC sucks, but not as a paying user. Once this package inclusion is removed, if it is removed, i'll pay again.

Alright does anyone have opinions on Nextcloud Passwords? There's apps for it and it would sync to my Nextcloud.

I hate this. Bitwarden has been a good app.

sigh

Keepass. Keep it simple.

Sooo, where's ProtonPass at? They're open source and non-profit, right?

Thats not good :(

I use to always recommend bitwarden to people. Now i feel like an idiot for doing so with them switching up. Ill be making the effort to move to keepassxc soon and host it myself.

Well, I guess not having password manager yet did had some benefit because now I know not to use bitwarden

pass: the standard unix password manager