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They should take 20 million, endow a foundation, and have the foundation hire a couple of their original devs to make a clean room, open-source equivalent to 1Password 6. Then those of us who actually just want a self hosted password manager, not a massive whacky cloud secret factory, can use that.

Sigh, what a stupid world we live in, where greed destroys everything good.



Have you tried KeePassXC? It has a reasonable UI and mental model, and does zero cloudy things.


And it can already read the 1Password .opvault (the "legacy" format, stored in Dropbox and on disk) "file" format -- I would guess it wouldn't be an unholy amount of work to teach it to write out that format, too, but I stopped short of doing that work because I figured KeePassXC wouldn't merge it

After that, I would teach KeePassXC to serve the 1Password browser extension websocket protocol, because I found its UX far, far, far, far superior to KeePassXC's browser extension UX


I have tried it, but one of my use cases is sharing passwords, and I couldn’t figure out how to do that well.


And you can choose to sync with Dropbox, one drive, etc. And it has an android app.


Why do you feel entitled to that? Are you going to pay for it again?


It's a desire, not an entitlement


If pay for it again in a heartbeat.


Why exactly “should” they do that?




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