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Bitwarden New CEO has extensive M&A, Private equity experience, Removes Transparency from its Motto (www.fastcompany.com)
submitted 2 days ago by iter_facio@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world
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I find this move concerning, and wish that the Founder had looked for a new CEO that shared his values rather than a Private Equity and Mergers Expert.

Furthermore, the change to the GRIT motto is worrying. Trust is useless without Transparency when it comes to code and security.

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[–] determinist@kbin.earth 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Anyone have any idea how this affects Vaultwarden, if at all?

[–] CountVon@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I think the short answer is that it doesn't. VaultWarden is currently open source, and no private equity organization can put the genie back in the bottle. If things get really bad then someone would likely fork the open source bits and maintain a pure open source version, in which case there would likely be a procedure to migrate existing VaultWarden installs to the purely open source successor. I don't think VaultWarden users need to be overly concerned at this point.

[–] in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The fork would have to be a browser integration as the bitwarden extensions and desktop apps are the bitwarden part. Vaultwarden as the backend self-hosted db and webapp is opensource.

Edit: bitwarden clients are not yet closed source

[–] Sickday@kbin.earth 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Seems like the clients are at least source-available? https://github.com/bitwarden/clients

[–] in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

For now... That's what would be forked, thanks for the correction

[–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

It won't stop them from trying though. Just look at what Bambu is doing.

[–] determinist@kbin.earth 2 points 1 day ago

I thought the same, just wanted some reassurance :))

[–] SnoringEarthworm@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Short-term, no change.

Medium- and long-term, Bitwarden could cut off access to their clients and go closed source.

Hopefully, Vaultwarden devs take advantage of the early warning and prepare contingencies for ~~if~~ when Bitwarden crosses the point of no return.

[–] stephen01king@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Aren't Bitwarden clients open-source?