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Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source (www.phoronix.com)
submitted 2 months ago by AsudoxDev@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 486@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Proprietary is a strong word IMO. Here’s the repo, it’s not FOSS, but it is source available.

Yeah, that's what I meant by "proprietary". I guess having the source to look at is better than nothing, but it still leaves me uneasy. Their license lets them do anything they want (ignoring that - as it stands - their license is void due to the linkage with GPLv3 code, but they said they want to fix that). I have no idea what their plan is. I don't think it is in their best interest to go the route they appear to be going. Having truly open source clients seems to be a selling point for quite a few customers. But what do I know…

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Agreed. If they end up not making this component FOSS, I'll probably leave and take my paltry $10/year with me (which I don't need to pay since the features I use are all in the free version). But I'll give them a year or so to work out whatever refactoring they're doing before making that call, I'm certainly not going to jump ship just because a new component is merely source-available.