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?
@joepie91 projects I hopped from that each fucked me over:
Vault, SmallStep, Teleport, BastionZero, Tail scale, Bitwarden.. the list goes on.
@joepie91 VCs seem particularly predatory with any kind of "Zero trust cyber security edge cloud" bullshit bingo.
@arianvp That's one of the industries it happens for, yeah, the thing with the infosec industry is that they're extremely easy to buy goodwill from, you just hire a couple security folks who are well-liked in the community, have them write a couple really interesting and cool blogposts with knowledge that's hard to find in a concise format elsewhere, and bam, you've bought the market.
See also: Cloudflare, Tailscale, ...
(There's some other industries where this happens, DevOps is another one, but it's why this particular predatory model happens so often in specific industries)
