630
Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source (www.phoronix.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
188 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

That's how they get you. Jump ship now

Anyone looking at this...what alternatives are out there?

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
    •
  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Update: Bitwarden posted to X this evening to reaffirm that it's a "packaging bug" and that "Bitwarden remains committed to the open source licensing model."

    I'm not going to jump ship just yet, though I may get around to updating my backup.

    There are plenty of alternatives, so feel free to shop around. But don't jump the gun just because of a random Phoronix article with an update that says basically the opposite of what the article claims. Wait some time to see if there are actual changes coming.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah no. This is clearly backpedaling and you should look to get away

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Maybe. Here's what they say in the readme of the project people are complaining about:

    The password manager SDK is not intended for public use and is not supported by Bitwarden at this stage. It is solely intended to centralize the business logic and to provide a single source of truth for the internal applications. As the SDK evolves into a more stable and feature complete state we will re-evaluate the possibility of publishing stable bindings for the public. The password manager interface is unstable and will change without warning.

    There are two ways to take this:

    • this is temporary as they're refactoring code to reduce duplication across clients
    • refactoring is an excuse to create fully proprietary clients going forward

    Until I see evidence of the latter, I'll stick with the project, but I'll be more consistent about creating backups so I can switch easily if I need to.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent