Comment on Bitwarden Switches to Commercial License
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 6 days agoWhat is “the API”?
Good question. When you have multiple implementations of an API, the API (the authoritative version) is what gives the reference spec that all other apps must follow.
If the authoritative version will be fully implemented only by the closed backend and in the closed apps, it will cripple the FOSS backend and apps.
This is a common tactic used by companies that want to sideline the FOSS options and slowly make them irrelevant.
Yes, today all apps talk to both Bitwarden and Vaultwarden the same way. Be on the lookout in case that changes.
nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de 6 days ago
I’d totally see the risk if the clients were not available as open source. But they are. So I’m not.
They might diverge, but vaultwarden users will just fork. Nobody who is using official clients with vaulwarden will be “oh dang, now I have to buy bitwarden, so long vaulwarden, was fun…”