This is an update to a post that was previously shared in the community: Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source

@vzq@lemmy.world
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Even if they are backtracking with egg on their face, this is good. Maybe better. Now they know they can’t get away with this stuff.

Man, I really hate seeing comments like this. I feel like I need to reiterate that BitWarden is NOT an open-source company. They are committed to providing open-source compatible products with their products. Two very different things.

If they feel their product is somehow lacking or affected by whatever they are packaging right now, they are completely free to change it. They also have no barriers to entry for users who wish to use another client.

It’s really not a big deal.

@vzq@lemmy.world
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Man, I really hate seeing comments like this.

That’s not a strong way to start a comment if you want to have a conversation.

I feel like I need to reiterate that BitWarden is NOT an open-source company. They are committed to providing open-source compatible products with their products. Two very different things.

I don’t particularly care about your feelings, but go right ahead.

I’m curious though, did I say or imply they were AN OPEN SOURCE COMPANY ™ (whatever the fuck that even means?)

If they feel their product is somehow lacking or affected by whatever they are packaging right now, they are completely free to change it.

Of course. And I’m free to post on this fucking website how I feel about it.

Isn’t all this freedom to discuss our feelings just fucking great?

It’s really not a big deal

Options about this obviously differ.

That’s not a strong way to start a comment if you want to have a conversation.

Neither is tone policing.

Dang, you angry.

morriscox
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419h

Are they backtracking when they have stated that it’s a bug?

@vzq@lemmy.world
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219h

That’s why I said “even if”.

“Even if” it’s not really a bug and they are backtracking, then [rest of comment here].

@BassTurd@lemmy.world
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518h

I interpreted your comment correctly. Make sense to me in context of the OP.

morriscox
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118h

Even if they are backtracking with egg on their face

Your comment can be read in more than one way.

bean
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1316h

Oh thank Christ. I was afraid this was Lastpass all over again.

@bulwark@lemmy.world
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3719h

When I dropped LastPass I found Bitwarden and liked them mainly because of the open source. I pay them for the software so that it can remain free and open. If that stopped, I would also stop paying them for it.

RubberDuck
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219h

Yup, same here.

morriscox
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1118h

I’m not sure how it could be a bug but I notice a lot of complaining(1) and calls to move to KeePass. It reminds me of the complaining(1) about Windows and how everyone should move to Linux. Lemmy was itching to torch BitWarden. We seem to have a mob mentality, with little ability to consider possible explanations and multiple factors.

  1. I’m tempted to put bitching.

Lemmy is hilariously reactionary and fickle. Never found a windmill that couldnt be tilted at.

I’m not sure why that still surprises me considering it’s made up of a ton of people who self selected to leave a site in protest.

@JASN_DE@lemmy.world
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120h

Riiight…

I’ve been paying for proton mail for a couple years now. Decided to stick with Bitwarden when proton announced their password manager as I liked it more. Based on this fiasco I gave it a second look and so far I’ve been liking it. I haven’t committed to abandoning Bitwarden, but I’m certainly on track to.

@asap@lemmy.world
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416h

They’re not really comparable since Bitwarden has the source available for auditing and Proton Pass (server) does not.

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