Comment on Bitwarden Switches to Commercial License
irotsoma@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Sure, it’s no change for self hosters currently, but it’s one more step in moving towards a more closed platform overall. I do hope more FOSS client apps end up getting made sometime soon. I’ve been using Keyguard on Android for some time, which means the recent several breaking changes in the Bitwarden apps to the Vaultwarden backend haven’t hit me as hard, but I do still use the official apps for my laptop and desktop and Keyguard isnt fully FOSS, of course. I’d love to see some forks or brand new apps one of these days that are actually fully FOSS for both mobile and browsers. I’ve thought about doing some myself, but I have too many other projects and I also don’t have a MAC or want to pay the fees to make an iPhone version. And I abandoned my Android Developer account when they started the identity nonsense, so none of my apps are on the official store anymore and Fdroid and similar may not be viable soon, so it would only really be for myself and a few others who use alternate Android OS’s.
@irotsoma There's no such thing as "Actually FOSS" - that's why it stands for Free & Open Source Software.
All of the pain being experienced by this move from Bitwarden is because it is Open Source Software, which is the not-Free, shitty corporate owned version of Free Software.
What you want is software that is "actually Free."
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irotsoma@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
I mean, yeah, that’s what I was saying. I want a truly free and thus FOSS version of the apps. Vaultwarden is a FOSS version of Bitwarden back end, but there aren’t really any totally FOSS apps for it. That’s what I’d like to see more of.