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  • Instead of overlaying its own UI on top of form fields, I'd like Bitwarden (or any other PW manager) to act as a provider for the underlying system's native fill service, usually the browser, or Android, or OSX. They will always work much better than any 3rd party app.

    Is that possible, does that exist?

    by j1elo
  • I’ve been a premium subscriber for 10+ years and I have to admit I don’t really care about this license stuff. As long as it keeps working well I’m happy.
    by zeroonetwothree
  • Why does the title of this submission say "Dual License"? The linked page doesn't use that term anywhere, and it's also not an accurate description of what this change is.
    by josephcsible
  • This was always inevitable when they took funding.
    by figmert
  • IMO Bitwarden really isn't that well engineered software, and I now use Keyguard on Android/Vaultwarden server instead. Reminds me of Subsonic, with many competing clients/servers. Hopefully someone will write a third party browser extension as the current one is quite slow/buggy.
    by 0l
  • Okay, it’s good they have the open source because if you rewrite the Chrome extension you can get it to load in under 100 ms after you click the button. If you use the standard Chrome extension you’re not having that happen on an M1 Max. Their stuff is far too heavy. Full JS framework to display a small box.
    by arjie
  • I actually find this somewhat understandable; and I'll be continuing my subscription; as long as all source continues to be available and personal self-hosting remains a viable option.

    Yes, I'd much prefer full open source, but "all source available; some restrictions on commercial use" is still miles better; the OSS funding and incentives problem is still unsolved.

    Just look at Elasticsearch -> AWS ElasticSearch; or Redis -> ElastiCache; etc.

    It's like leeching: a big corporation, with far more distribution and brand takes your codebase; and their structural advantages (in terms of distribution) makes it an extremely difficult uphill battle for you to compete.

    I struggle to think of solutions: yes, they are doing everything by the license; so the main viable solution seems to be... changing the license.

    by dannyw
  • Very insightful blog post listed by another user as a sub-comment. Worth posting as a top-level comment:

    https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-quiet-renovation-at-bitwarden

    Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48163389

    by rsyring

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