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Bitwarden Switches to Commercial License (community.bitwarden.com)
submitted 3 days ago by Mustachius_Grumpius@thelemmy.club to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] ElGrande@lemmy.dbzer0.com 93 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Pretty much seen it coming when the new CEO came in and removed the words "Transparency" and "Always Free" from the official marketing.

[–] Zagorath@quokk.au 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Whether you believe it or not is another matter, but this very post still includes the words "transparency" and "always free".

Bitwarden remains committed to open source security and transparency

Bitwarden remains committed to a robust, free forever plan for everyone

and a bonus:

The free plan is here to stay permanently

[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You can already see them positioning themselves to start removing features with the phrase "free plan."

Nothing stopping them from limiting the number of passwords available in "the free plan" or something, pressuring users into "the pay plan."

But I'm pretty cynical.

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

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

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

Afaik totp aren’t supported on free plan already

[–] Zagorath@quokk.au 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day 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

[–] giant_smeeg@feddit.uk 4 points 2 days ago

Aslong as it stays source available at a bare minimum for the paid offering/options I think I can live with that.

[–] Batmorous@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Anyone got some better alternatives for people to try out?

[–] 01011@monero.town 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

pass https://www.passwordstore.org/ keepass https://keepass.info/

Never made any sense to me why so many people ran away from these two open source options towards Bitwarden.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

Because some people need non-technical people to share password solutions. Keepass is all or nothing for security and pass is ad administration headache for a family.

[–] Zarobi@aussie.zone 21 points 2 days ago

Bitwarden has much better enterprise options. KeePass is kind of dinky by comparison; even for a single user you immediately run into the problem "how do I sync my new password to my phone automatically?" Bitwarden was just an app that worked.

That being said ~ I see the writing on the wall, and will be going back to the dinky option. Again. This isn't the first time I've been burnt, but I never seem to learn. Self-hosting seems to be the only sustainable long-term option after all. Hopefully the migration isn't too painful.

I highly recommend anyone reading this get your export out while they still have a good export tool. First thing companies do in enshitification 101 is make it difficult to leave and trap you via inconvenience.

[–] PushButton@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I never understood the 9000iq move to give all your credentials to someone else...

That's why I use "pass" as password-store.