Concerns raised over Bitwarden moving further away from open source
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Re: Concerns raised over Bitwarden moving further away from open source
#2So there's nothing.
> Being able to build the app as you are trying to do here is an issue we plan to resolve and is merely a bug.
Tempest in a teapot.
What about reporting a bug and chill? Instead of immediately jumping the gun and flooding the issue tracker of the one company that still tries with preaching? What is this going to achieve? Of course they locked it. Shame on everyone who commented some RMS-inspired lament into their issue queue.
Re: Concerns raised over Bitwarden moving further away from open source
#3I left Bitwarden as soon as they started using dark patterns in their UI. They got in the way instead of enhancing the user experience.
Re: Concerns raised over Bitwarden moving further away from open source
#4I left Bitwarden as soon as they started using dark patterns in their UI. They got in the way instead of enhancing the user experience.
What dark patterns have you observed that I should keep an eye out for?
Re: Concerns raised over Bitwarden moving further away from open source
#5So there's nothing. > Being able to build the app as you are trying to do here is an issue we plan to resolve and is merely a bug. Tempest in a teapot. What about reporting a bug and chill? Instead of immediately jumping the gun and flooding the issue tracker of the one company that still tries with preaching? What is this going to achieve? Of course they locked it. Shame on everyone who commented some RMS-inspired l…
Your comment is misleading.
What the CTO said is that, "build [failure] with bitwarden_license directory removed" is a bug. It doesn't change the fact that the SDK is not released under the free license.
EDIT: citation EDIT2: s/CEO/CTO/
Re: Concerns raised over Bitwarden moving further away from open source
#6I never understood the appeal of web-based password managers. KeePass all the way, all offline, no randomly changing UI, everything in a single .db file. Need syncing? Use Cloud storage service.
Re: Concerns raised over Bitwarden moving further away from open source
#7I never understood the appeal of web-based password managers. KeePass all the way, all offline, no randomly changing UI, everything in a single .db file. Need syncing? Use Cloud storage service.
Can it fill passwords in iPhone Safari?
Re: Concerns raised over Bitwarden moving further away from open source
#8I never understood the appeal of web-based password managers. KeePass all the way, all offline, no randomly changing UI, everything in a single .db file. Need syncing? Use Cloud storage service.
the appeal is that it's a one click solution that works everywhere. If you have multiple devices, even worse if it's a mix of Android, Iphone, Windows, Mac, Linux you now have to find some cross platform sync solution on every device, the autofill functions of the various plugins don't work half the time, it usually ends up being an annoying mess. And if you need secure credential sharing with family members it's ten times more complicated yet again.
Re: Concerns raised over Bitwarden moving further away from open source
#9I never understood the appeal of web-based password managers. KeePass all the way, all offline, no randomly changing UI, everything in a single .db file. Need syncing? Use Cloud storage service.
Can it fill passwords in iPhone Safari?
Yes, via the KeePassium client:
https://github.com/keepassium/KeePassium
As with all iOS apps, there’s no guarantee that the open source app code on GitHub corresponds to what you install from the App Store.
I have been very satisfied with KeePassium, it integrates with all the cloud storage providers I’d want and the app itself works well.
Re: Concerns raised over Bitwarden moving further away from open source
#10Open source developers should think twice before accepting VC funding. The VC then own them.