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I'm the same way. The most important parts of the KeePass ecosystem to me are:

1. It runs on every platform I currently use, as well as any platform I might care to use, whether or not that platform is sufficiently "popular" for a company to justify caring about it.

2. It isn't dependent on the continued healthy existence of a company to remain usable, as I could simply self-maintain in a worst case scenario.

These are very important things about a password manager to me, personally, which is why any of these more polished/popular options would be an extremely tough sell.



Yep, there is no way I am trusting a company with maintaining access to passwords on all my accounts and my clients accounts. Keep Pass uses a well documented XML file format that, if needed, I can manually decrypt and access if for some reason, every copy of KeePass is deleted.




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