bitwarden, enshittification, etc., personal frustration
And once again, a "FOSS" thing that people *assured* me was legitimate FOSS when I refused to use it because of its commercial VC-y setup... is starting to lock down their project after increased VC funding.
How many times does this need to happen before people stop trying to argue about this shit with me and just accept that there is a very good reason I will not touch anything that looks VC-y, no matter how "we're FOSS, honest, promise" it claims to be?
When will people learn that corporate FOSS with an unclear business model *will* end up backstabbing them, and it's just a matter of 'when', not a matter of 'if'?
"But this one is different!" No it's fucking not, and I fucking *told* you that this would happen and why, but you didn't want to listen did you?
bitwarden, enshittification, etc., personal frustration (2)
So like, consider this your early warning for Tailscale and all the other currently-hip "open-source-friendly" things that are rapidly buying goodwill with neat technical blogposts. We'll see where they are in a year or five.
(And this one isn't exactly an 'early' warning anymore, but Microsoft "embracing open-source" is absolutely one of these as well.)
bitwarden, enshittification, etc., personal frustration (2)
@joepie91 bitwarden made the SDK GPLv3 now, see: https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/issues/11611#issuecomment-2436287977 and https://github.com/bitwarden/sdk-internal/commit/db648d7ea85878e9cce03283694d01d878481f6b
Of course that is no guarantee that they won't get up to something at a later time.