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by tpetry 1001 days ago
No company will eever say that thereyare plans for aggresive monetezation. They will always say everything stays the same - open-source mindset etc.

Until 2 years later there is a license and pricing change. One that will make it 10 times more expensive - or the free/open-source version will be crippled.

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And the UI will suck because they've made it an Electron app so they can have a universal platform...
The clients are fully FOSS, and there is a FOSS server reference application, too. What could go wrong? (Famous last words Inc.)

FWIW: I've been using this application for the past years. I pay 12 USD or so a year, though I self-host. I just pay as a thank you since I still use the FOSS client, and the price is very reasonable.

1Password is hardly even a competitor as it is a completely different price range, and different product. It isn't FOSS at all, there's a vendor lock-in (in contrast to Bitwarden), and it is 3x as expensive at the very least. They're miles apart.

And 1Password does not propose self-hosting anymore, which is why I am stuck to version 7 for my personal vault. At work, we use Bitwarden self-hosted solution. I could even use an encrypted text file to store my passwords if there were no self-hosting solution anywhere. It gives you an idea at how much I do not want my infos to be on the Internet somewhere.