- FOSS includes distributive right. Bitwarden is not.
- I agree self hosting maybe hard, but one could always go for KeepassXC with any generic cloud storage.
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- nimrod06@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.world•Bitwarden New CEO has extensive M&A, Private equity experience, Removes Transparency from its MottoEnglish11·15 days ago
- nimrod06@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.world•Bitwarden New CEO has extensive M&A, Private equity experience, Removes Transparency from its MottoEnglish91·15 days ago
All I say is that it’s not FOSS in the strict sense.
- nimrod06@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.world•Bitwarden New CEO has extensive M&A, Private equity experience, Removes Transparency from its MottoEnglish132·15 days ago
FOSS is a standardized term. As the Free Software Foundation defines it:
Free and open-source software (FOSS) is software available under a license that gives users the right to use, share, modify, and distribute the software – modified or not – to everyone and provides the means to exercise those rights using the software’s source code.
You are not granted right to modify or distribute Bitwarden. You can inspect and use that to build your own. That is what Vaultwarden does.
- nimrod06@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.world•Bitwarden New CEO has extensive M&A, Private equity experience, Removes Transparency from its MottoEnglish54·15 days ago
Not if you are being strict with the definition of FOSS.
- nimrod06@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.world•Bitwarden New CEO has extensive M&A, Private equity experience, Removes Transparency from its MottoEnglish1·15 days ago
That means you want one browser to be not flatpak, in most distros the default is Firefox, but it’s up to you to change.
- nimrod06@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.world•Bitwarden New CEO has extensive M&A, Private equity experience, Removes Transparency from its MottoEnglish125·15 days ago
Why people bother with any corporate software when it really don’t provide much more than completely FOSS alternatives
- nimrod06@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.world•Bitwarden New CEO has extensive M&A, Private equity experience, Removes Transparency from its MottoEnglish1·15 days ago
I figured you have to layer the browser on the system. The KeePassXC can stay flatpak. That’s how it worked for me. You always want to have one browser layered, anyways.