It really depends on the software and all of the surrounding factors. If you want to send me a direct message with a quick description of the software and your circumstances I’m happy to give you my thoughts. There aren’t really “right” answers in this field, just different ways to achieve different goals.

To give you a few quick thoughts. Yes, software can be protectable by copyright or patent, but each I’ll have different strengths and weaknesses. Open sourcing is pretty misunderstood generally. That said, it can definitely be the foundation for a successful business under the right circumstances. As for a one man start up, good luck. It sounds almost impossible to be honest. I don’t think I truly know of any successful one man startups, but it depends on what success looks like to you.

As I said above, message me with more info and I’ll do my best to provide some actually helpful tips.

Lawyer and engineer. I manage the IP and help spin out start ups for a large robotics research institution.

I’m just a dude who wanted to recommend a service I liked. I hope anyone else looking for something like this appreciates learning about them, but feel free to scroll past if not. I moved from T mobile to Mint and then to Cape over time as I began to tweak my own more privacy oriented set up.

It definitely is, but from their perspective I think the average price is logarithmic towards $30 or so dollars? I did the logic at some point but its 2am where I am now and my brain is mashed potatoes so I forget. Either way, yes it is pyramidical, but for a limited time and a cap on gain, which changes the overall structure slightly.

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Look up commoditizing the compliment.

I haven’t seen any of those things yet, but I’ll try to keep an eye out. The only one I noticed was a default search engine to Google, but DDG was an easy enough option. I like libre wolf as well, but I’m not a fan of the updating scheme on my system.

Zen is excellent.

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I have Cape and they have been great so far. I’ll leave some info below. Skip the first paragraph if you want to avoid their advertising scheme, but it was the big reason I could afford to switch to them so I thought I might be helpful to others.

They are currently running an early adopter promotion until the end of the year where you get an unlimited plan that is $70 per month for life, and if you use someone else’s referral Code it drops you down to $50/month for as long as that person stays on Cape. What’s crazy is that it then drops to $30 for another referral, $10 after another, and $0 after that. For as long as those other people are on. I thought that was a pretty cool deal honestly given that I was previously paying $55 a month for T Mobile.

So a quick review from my experiences so far.

Sign up was easy and basically needed no identifying information. I use Cape on Graphene OS through the stock messaging app. It allows me to send videos, images, and so on. There are some issues with group chats still I think, but I haven’t really fiddled with that. The coverage and speeds have been solid.

The IMSI rotation is automatic and a great protocol. They have a bunch of other very smart architecture choices. I used to write patents for telecomm companies like Ericsson and Qualcomm and I’m really impressed with their engineering. My friend is an independent security pentester and educator, and their company recently audited Cape. They said they did excellently and had no reservations on recommending them to me. I also watched a lot of interviews about the company and their system. After that, I felt comfortable testing Cape out. My hope was that they would be way more reliable approach than my previous set up (I followed the Bazzell set up with Mint under a pseudonym and VoIP.ms but voip.ms has been really spotty lately and I have young kids so that’s no good).

I still have VoIP.ms for my old number, but I use my main Cape cell number for close family and friends who won’t get on Signal for whatever reason. They also give you two free burner numbers for texting only, so I use those for 2FA and sign ups if needed. You can only text to those numbers and you currently can’t port them out, but I believe they are middle to end encrypted (check me on that one though).

There are many other features and caveats (like they’re working on RCS, they have different available features for iPhone users, etc.), but I recommend their interviews with channels like the hated one or techlore or elsewhere. Those helped me a lot.

I’m happy to answer any other questions. It took me a while to decide to try them out because I’m pretty tedious about my privacy set up, but I’ve honestly been pretty impressed so far and I love the idea of having a mobile core telecomm company adopt some actual privacy architecture in this middle space.

Edit: I just reread my post and realized how much I sound like a shill and how much I repeated what OP said. Sorry, I’m just high in my bed.

Could you provide the exact settings menu you are talking about in the iPhone? I switched to graphene from iPhone and ran into a bunch of mostly solvable problems. One that was out of my control was how Apple was storing my information for other iPhone users. For example, for my mom’s Apple account, Apple stored the metadata that I had an Apple device and it would therefore first try routing messages over imessage and would simply fail to deliver after I switched to Graphene. I had to go into my mom’s phone and manually force her phone to send the message via SMS. It correctly remembered my number for her after that, but you apparently have to do that for every person if they have the same situation. I ended up getting a new standard cell number through Cape and I use that through Graphene’s stock messaging app now without any issues so far.

I’m sorry for your loss.

On a different note, your username is fantastic and I’m sad I didn’t think of it first.

Autonomous vehicles too. I know because I wrote some of the patents ten years ago for Qualcomm and Ericsson on these exact topics. The world felt like a much different place back then.

Day off in Kyoto Got bored at the temple Looked around at the 7-Eleven

The band took the speed train Went to the arcade I wanted to go, but I didn’t

You called me from a payphone They still got payphones It cost a dollar a minute

To tell me you’re getting sober And you wrote me a letter But I don’t have to read it

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