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by AlexandrB 21 days ago
For me it's not that it has to be free, but that it can't be a subscription service or cloud-hosted-only. It's why I left 1Password. I don't like trusting my password management to the whims of mercurial business decisions. It's only a matter of time until private equity smells blood in the water with this product category and starts "extracting value" through acquisitions and arbitrary price increases.
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> It's only a matter of time until private equity smells blood in the water with this product category and starts "extracting value" through acquisitions and arbitrary price increases.

My advice would be… If that happens, you can worry about it then.

It seems you could lose a lot of time and sleep protecting yourself against a doomsday scenario that will probably never happen.