Comment on Bitwarden Switches to Commercial License

teezeh@ieji.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Split versions is usually the first step. Many projects have done so before. Next year there will be some technical reason they can’t keep feature parity with the commercial repository, and it will drift from the OSS repository. Oops, we broke compatibility, sowwy guys. A couple of years later the OSS repository will be closed because it is a security risk. By that point the company and management would’ve drifted so far from the initial values of the project that people won’t notice. Those who cared will have jumped ship to alternatives sooner, those who noticed later will be already too deep into depending on the software that they will keep paying the subscription.

  I have no evidence, but I also don’t have any doubts this is the plan.

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