[jshelly]

I am also a long time customer of 1Password.

Unfortunately or fortunately (if you are a shareholder of a SaaS public company) we have seen a mass exodus by corporations (see Adobe, MS/o365, Quickbooks, Basecamp, etc.. etc..) that have moved from the traditional purchase a license model to the cloud based subscription model.

While I do understand the benefits of storing certain information in the cloud (GitHub!) when it comes to the storage of critical information such as passwords I'd rather be in control of that information myself and on my own hardware.

While 1Password is correct in suggesting that the cloud model may be the best solution for average users, it runs face first into the best practices of security conscious professionals.

I would personally be willing to pay a premium for a "Pro" version of 1Password with local storage and keep the cloud based subscriptions for people that are either unwilling to or do not have the skill set to manage a local security store.

One more additional note, a move like this should have been more transparent from AgileBits. It looks a bit like they tried to slip one past the goalie, which isn't going to give anyone the warm fuzzies especially when it comes to security products.

[wlll]

FWIW Basecamp (disclaimer: used to work there) never had anything other than a pay monthly SaaS model, and IMO it makes sense given the amount of time people actually spend pulling dynamically updated web pages from the server and is more akin to Github in the usage pattern than something like MS Project or Quickbooks (It's secretly a communications tool).