For the record, #Bitwarden has never been fully #opensource. They've always been an open core model, despite their marketing to the contrary.
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For the record, #Bitwarden has never been fully #opensource. They've always been an open core model, despite their marketing to the contrary.
Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source
Several Phoronix readers have written in this Sunday over concerns of Bitwarden further moving away from open-source
(www.phoronix.com)
There are several fully open source alternatives if this matters to you.
Bitwarden and Gitlab have both managed to convince a lot of people that their flagship products are fully open source when they are not with some very clever marketing.
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Scott Williams 🐧replied to Scott Williams 🐧 last edited by
When Bitwarden and/or Gitlab eventually change their licensing, no doubt there will be many tech articles saying that it will be yet another example of how #opensource was bad for their business in some way, when they should say that it's yet another example of #OpenCore not working out.
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Carmen Bianca BAKKERreplied to Scott Williams 🐧 last edited by
@vwbusguy Naïve question, but what are the free software alternatives to Bitwarden? I'm aware of Vaultwarden, but this is a server. I'm also aware of KeePassXC, but I'm a little sceptical of this project (it's a fork of a fork, and their interactions with the Debian project haven't been great).
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Scott Williams 🐧replied to Carmen Bianca BAKKER last edited by [email protected]
@keepassxc is legit. Beyond the project itself, it's also an open standard with great interoperability, so you can use it with KeeWeb and others, too.
KeePassXC is very much not the only notable one by far, but it is one viable alternative, depending on your use case. I use Nextcloud so I'm able to host/sync my KeePass databases all on my own devices.
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Scott Williams 🐧replied to Scott Williams 🐧 last edited by [email protected]
@carmenbianca @keepassxc #Passman is another option for individuals and is simpler. I used this before I eventually moved to KeePassXC because I wanted something that was more feature rich. If you just want to securely store website passwords, Passman is easy.
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@vwbusguy Kyle's response was pretty clear and I feel it was authentic. But who knows these days, nothing good ever stays good.
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