Bitwarden is no longer free software

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238 points ferbivore | 1 comments | 20 Oct 24 08:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source

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wg0 ◴[20 Oct 24 09:03 UTC] No.41894059[source]▶

Earlier, open source was about creativity, innovation, curiosity and sharing that with a wider ecosystem as a reactionary movement to closed walls that hinder curious minds to look under the hood how things exactly work.

Lately, it seems like open source is mostly a marketing gimmick of gathering free traction early on without spending tons of money on advertising and then later gradually pulling the rug.

Examples galore. At this point, I'd assume any open source project in past five to eight years taking this trajectory at any point.

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OutOfHere ◴[20 Oct 24 09:45 UTC] No.41894240[source]▶

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Open source software by organizations is at risk of becoming not open. Open source software by individuals is still fine, however.

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1. wg0 ◴[20 Oct 24 10:34 UTC] No.41894436[source]▶

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True, VCs and private equity wherever they touch, things will change. These companies would love to build their empires on open source libraries, tools, frameworks and languages off the efforts of such individuals but would not give back enough and in most cases nothing at all.

This imbalance needs to be recognised.

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