1Password faced immediate backlash from customers this week over a $300,000 pledge in support of a Linux distro created by David Heinemeier Hansson, who has regularly published overtly racist blog posts that include comments calling for deportation of ethnic minorities in Europe. The popular password manager is now a “distinguished corporate patron” of Omacom, the nonprofit foundation that oversees a popular Linux distribution known as Omarchy.
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Unfortunately Bitwarden might not be as super of a choice as it was https://howmation.com/en_US/blog/article/bitwarden-2026-what-really-changes they’re slipping into private equity.
At some point they’ll stop supporting Vaultwarden, at that point anyone with skin in the game should 100% get out.
Vaultwarden can probably keep going without BW. The main issue is maintaining the clients.
100%
And FOSS clients wouldn’t be a showstopper, but they are going to be absolute upkeep hogs.