Before Bitwarden / Vaultwarden I went with Keepass (it was some fork don’t remember the exact name KeepassXC probably) synced via Nextcloud. It’s not as convenient as Bitwarden plus at least back then it didn’t support passkeys. So yeah, I don’t know what is actually out there. Honestly I don’t think it’s super urgent to start hunting for alternatives but probably we should have at least some ideas in case the Bitwarden team does some weird moves.

If you read their announcement carefully you’ll find things like

All current features are available in both versions

Which strongly implies that the different versions will start to diverge over time. Then at one point they will just be like maah it’s not worth putting more work into the open source thing, we’ll focus on building new cool features yada yada yada. And this is how all the open to partly open to closed source rug pulls worked in the last years.

(If you want to do this the worst way possible like MinIO you also squash / delete the Git history the moment you announce you’re only working on closed source)

Be cautious in such cases is not overreacting. We’ve seen enough open to closed rug pulls in the last years.

That’s quite the disappointment. Probably need to prepare to switch away from bitwarden or at least research options for open source clients for my vaultwarden backend.

That’s really sad news :(

I’ll just leave this photo here, it’s here beside the code they wrote for the Apollo mission taking humanity to the moon. They really did some outstanding work there, without any of the helpers we are used to in the last centuries.