Private equity firm bug

[Thorwegian]

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Vaultwarden Support String

Private equity firms are a bug in the system. As I understand it, BitWarden has been purchased by such a firm. It is widely known that this tends to lead to enshittification.

Inform me of grassroots team efforts to counteract this. I'll write some code if needed. I have 40+ years of dev knowledge waiting for a important cause to apply it to.

Apologies for using the wrong channel. I find that computer programmers are rather flexible in this regard, if given the right reason to do so.

Vaultwarden Build Version

v1.34.0

Deployment method

Official Container Image

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Reverse Proxy

nginx 1.29.0

Host/Server Operating System

Linux

Operating System Version

Ubuntu 26.04

Clients

Desktop

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[BlackDex]

Not sure what you are trying to tell here. But Vaultwarden needs Bitwarden, and the Open Source part of Bitwarden to work.
Vaultwarden has no resources in anyway to fork Bitwarden and all there repo's and maintain everything if that is what you are suggesting.

Besides that, Vaultwarden is not associated with Bitwarden, does not receive funds from them or any other private equity (as far as I know).

Vaultwarden exists solely on the existent of Bitwarden Open Source.

[BlackDex]

Well, I do not think we are ready to Fork Bitwarden. And there are several recurring contributors for Vaultwarden.
From my point of view we will keep in-sync with Upstream Bitwarden.

If anything, we could use more contributor's to Vaultwarden to get in-sync with all the latest features and options.
But no large AI/LLM commits or stuff like that, since that will be a mess.

[Thorwegian]

With those investors? So, you just want the money?

[Thorwegian]

I ask you, with that in mind, what was the point of the fork?

[BlackDex]

I'm still not getting your point. Vaultwarden does not have investors. Just some people who donate.

[stefan0xC]

I ask you, with that in mind, what was the point of the fork?

What fork are you referring to? If you are talking about the soft fork repository of the web-vault it is only to keep track of our changes for each version (which are needed for reasons of compatibility, tiny quality of life improvements and to rebrand it as to not infringe on any protected trademarks). It's not a hard fork because by keeping it compatible with the upstream web-vault we ensure that this project is mostly also compatible with the other clients (desktop, browser extensions, mobile apps) and as long as the web-vault is released under the GPLv3 (or at least the parts we care about) I don't see a point in duplicating the efforts.

[Thorwegian]

Never mind. This was an overreaction. It was Friday night and some wine was involved...