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   smallcircles (Humane Tech Now) (humanetech@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Sep-2022 22:50:16 JST smallcircles (Humane Tech Now)

   Oops. #Bitwarden raised a lot of cash.

   https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32735479

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     Panos Alevropoulos (panosalevropoulos@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Sep-2022 23:20:51 JST Panos Alevropoulos

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     @humanetech This is not necessarily bad news. I think it's a good sign that companies with libre products attract big investors. But of course great projects were ruined this way in the past, so we need to be cautious. Let's see.

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     Sohan Subhash (s5h@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Sep-2022 00:32:44 JST Sohan Subhash

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     @humanetech I don’t think this is necessarily bad, just odd because I thought Bitwarden was already doing well bootstrapped.

     Regardless, I highly recommend the KeePassXC ecosystem if anyone wants to ditch Bitwarden. Strongbox on iOS and macOS is fantastic.

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     smallcircles (Humane Tech Now) (humanetech@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Sep-2022 03:26:11 JST smallcircles (Humane Tech Now)

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     • Cholling

     @cholling in general you are right, of course. Most of the comments are however reacting to the kind of investment, i.e. taking VC money. That's different than just bottom line. That's usually more akin to hockeystick growth and VC investors expecting huge ROI.

     Now, I wasn't really critical when posting this, as until now Bitwarden gave me very good vibes in how they built their company until now. Let's hope that will remain unchanged.

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     Cholling (cholling@polyglot.city)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Sep-2022 03:26:12 JST Cholling

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     @humanetech The comments are all aghast that a company might start pursuing its bottom line rather than providing services free to users in perpetuity. I have bad news for you about literally every company ever...