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.

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.

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