Re:Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager
by rmdes on Monday September 25, 2023 @06:12AM
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should OSS users of Vaultwarden be worried?
Re:Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager
by 1una on Monday September 25, 2023 @06:44AM
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Maybe. Vaultwarden is just a compatible server. All the clients (web, browser extension, desktop, cli and mobile apps) are still maintained by Bitwarden.
Re:Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager
by kioleanu on Monday September 25, 2023 @07:23AM
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Since the extensions themselves are still open source and very stable, they will probably be forked
Re:Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager
by e12e on Monday September 25, 2023 @10:17AM
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Please note that bitwarden server is floss too - vaultwarden is just a simpler backend to self-host (and without a dependency on Microsoft SQL server):
Re:Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager
by bradfa on Monday September 25, 2023 @08:09AM
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It depends. If the point of the VC money is to go after enterprise customers and to expand into other enterprisey software security products, then $100M seems reasonable to me, especially for the time when the investment happened. The VC market seems to have cooled quite a bit from when Bitwarden took that investment, so times change and maybe they were just striking while the iron was hot?
The $10/year individual plan wouldn't warrant $100M investment. But going after big companies who are going to commit to $X/year/employee or similar kinds of pricing packages might, especially if Bitwarden integrates with existing corporate directory systems and such for delegating and managing accounts.
That’s a bit worrying.