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Bitwarden New CEO has extensive M&A, Private equity experience, Removes Transparency from its Motto (www.fastcompany.com)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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I find this move concerning, and wish that the Founder had looked for a new CEO that shared his values rather than a Private Equity and Mergers Expert.

Furthermore, the change to the GRIT motto is worrying. Trust is useless without Transparency when it comes to code and security.

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[–] 85 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Luckily BW is open source, and VaultWarden exists. If they enshitify, all it takes is a fork of the browser extensions and apps with a rebrand.

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  • [–] 35 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    This right here is the only answer

    Companies can try to steal the app but they can only steal the name

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Exactly, IMO Vaultwarden should just fork the clients and extensions and officially take the lead. Bitwarden can just go the way of OpenOffice for all I care.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I'm out of the loop, what happened to OpenOffice?

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago*

    OpenOffice was maintained by sun Microsystems and they were bought by oricale. At the time it was seen so negatively that a fork called libreoffice was created and almost immediately became the default office suite for most people who were using OpenOffice.

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