Require Open Source for Password Managers

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I guess the answer is yes. The criteria would remain unchanged unless one of the following is true:

  1. The community wants to add something that is clearly so much worse than our recommendations (like Nordpass) that increasing the criteria is necessary to avoid confusion about why Nordpass isn’t recommended.
  2. One of the recommendations falls so far behind the others that it no longer makes sense to list.
  3. The community wants to add something that is so much radically better than our existing recommendations that it necessitates delisting the existing tools.

None of these 3 three things really apply.

And again, the argument that you and @fria are making is that situation #2 does apply, and I’m countering this argument by saying that source code licensing doesn’t create enough of a quality “delta” between 1Password and the others to say that “it has fallen behind.”

Is this an accurate assessment of where we’re at?

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