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Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source (www.phoronix.com)

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Bitwarden introduced a non-free dependency to their clients. The Bitwarden CTO tried to frame this as a bug but his explanation does not really make it any less concerning.

Perhaps it is time for alternative Bitwarden-compatible clients. An open source client that's not based on Electron would be nice. Or move to something else entirely? Are there any other client-server open source password managers?

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[-] 486@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

BitWarden already has lots of clients.

Does it? I'd be very much interested to know. I've been looking for other clients before, because I didn't like the sluggishness of the Electron client, but couldn't find any usable clients at all. There are some projects on Github, none of which seemed to be in a usable state. Perhaps I have been missing something.

This is being blown a bit out of proportion though. All they are saying is the official SDK may have some non-free components going forward. So what? It’s a private company, they can do what they want. Or the community can just fork it and move forward with a free one if they want, but it’s just not going to be in the official BitWarden clients. Hardly news or a big deal.

Nobody said that they can't do that (although people rightfully questioned that their changes are indeed comatible with the GPLv3). I very much disagree that this isn't a big deal, though.

[-] MightyCuriosity@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

I use Keyguard on my phone. Loving it so far. Mostly focused on Android but also available for all major platforms.

[-] JustMarkov@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 day ago

Keyguard is not open-source, only source-available.

[-] 486@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Thanks, I haven't seen that one before, but I'd really prefer an open source application.

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