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Out of a desire not to switch, I'm going to ask what I know to be a naive/dumb question: what's the worst that can happen? It's a mature gpl codebase
They become another LastPass.
Was LastPass open source to the same degree that Bitwarden is? It's super easy to run your own Vaultwarden server already, and it shouldn't be a problem for the community to fork and maintain unofficial clients either. Doesn't seem like there's much Bitwarden as a company could do about that, even if they wanted to.
I don't remember last pass being open source.
I'm surprised that nobody has (meaningfully) forked the clients yet, it seems like all the warning signs are there
When the clients start changing for the worse I'm sure there will be forks..
Yeah for sure, I'm just thinking that it can be a little rocky to get governance and contribution processes set up, sometimes those last minute forks flop because the person who decided to advertise their fork ends up being ill equipped to handle running the project. If we can get a libre warden client project working before hand then it'll make the process a lot more seamless when issues with bitwarden arise.