Comment by dare944
5 hours ago
Per their public discussion on the topic, the non-OSS licenses will still be public and accessible for review.
5 hours ago
Per their public discussion on the topic, the non-OSS licenses will still be public and accessible for review.
We’ve seen it countless times over the last decade. OpenSolaris was the first big one. The open source side isn’t going to change, it’ll just get abandoned. They’re committed to open source… for now. Nothing is going to change… for now. They’ll maintain compatibility with compatible servers… for now.
Everything will get chipped away piece by piece. It’s been happening continuously for well over a decade at this point and everyone should understand the strategy by now.
Of course. There's never any free lunch. There's always a cost to software development. Just sometimes the cost gets shifted in a way that's beneficial to the general public. But it never lasts.
At least with bitwarden, if the value they're trying to extract becomes more than the product is worth, in terms of real cost, lockin or transparency, at least the code is open now and for the foreseeable future. And when it comes time to fork it, AI will make it easier for the future maintainer(s) to keep the fork alive at minimal expense.