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Bitwarden Switches to Commercial License (community.bitwarden.com)
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cross-posted from: https://thelemmy.club/post/57178743

RyanL Bitwarden Employee

Hello everyone!

Starting in the next release, the Bitwarden apps published to the various stores will be the commercially licensed builds. No action is needed, and the apps will work exactly as they do today.

Bitwarden remains committed to open source security and transparency
The GPLv3 OSS licensed version continues to be updated and published on GitHub
All current features are available in both versions
License details are on GitHub
Bitwarden remains committed to a robust, free forever plan for everyone

If you have any questions, please ask them in this thread. Thanks all!

EDIT:

Bitwarden is not going closed-source
You can still fork Bitwarden
No change to self-hosting, the licensing change affects those who are repackaging and reselling Bitwarden
The free plan is here to stay permanently
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[–] 1 point 4 days ago (3 children)

Lastpass limited the number of device types, phone OR desktop

I'd find it more likely they remove passkeys and TOTP from the free plan.

My fam will not like moving password managers again, but it might be time.

Need PC, Mac, Linux, Android, IOS, Passkeys, TOTP, Granular Permissions, keepass ain't gonna cut it. Getting off my ass and making something isn't impossible, but i'm not looking forward to figuring out passkeys, copy, paste and accessiblilty on IOS.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago (1 child)

    Lastpass limited the number of device types, phone OR desktop

    The thing that shit me about LastPass doing that is that they used to do that. And I actually paid for it back when they did. Then they made it free for several years. And then they brought back the restriction, only at like 5x the price.

    And in the meantime, quality of life of the service remained flat. I regularly had to go into the LastPass app and manually copy/paste because the autofill functionality didn't work properly on Android. There was just no way it was a service of a quality that's worth paying for. Bitwarden's UX is incredible by comparison.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago

    yeah talk about going out in a blaze of glory stupidity.

    Fuck over the free users (features)

    Fuck over the pay users (cost)

    Fuck over the corporate users (over report the actual level of encryption, several vulnerabilities that exposed easy exfiltration, third party trackers running in zero-trust code)

    Fuck over everyone, their DevOps dude running Tatuli on Plex got RCE'd and exposed their entire vault

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