Copperhead is now just a scam attempting to profit off of the past association with the project now known as . In theory, I have a financial interest in Copperhead succeeding since I still own half of it. However, that doesn't change my opinion on the company one bit.
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It's also really just in theory that I have an actual financial interest in it succeeding, because I get no cut of the revenue despite developing nearly the entirety of everything they use with barely any compensation for it. I also didn't write it as an employee of the company.
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I never had any employment agreement with Copperhead or any contracts to work on the code. The work was my open source project developed on my own time and Copperhead had agreed to support it as such. I learned the hard way not to trust people, even people I thought were friends.
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Every company I've worked for has had an employee agreement. That is surprising to say the least....
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They portray it as if I am just some disgruntled former employee rather than the person who created and developed the entire open source project and co-founded the company. There were 3 co-founders but only 2 left by the time the shares were divided which is why it was 50-50.
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And to clarify something, it was supposed to be a security consulting company. The open source mobile privacy and security work that I was doing was not supposed to be the entire basis for the company. I just ended up being the only person doing any meaningful amount of work.
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It was explicitly agreed with the other 2 co-founders (including James) that I would own and control the open source work that I was doing. The business model of the company was doing security consulting work. It wasn't supposed to be based around this own source project anyway.
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It did end up that way, and James convinced me to make changes to my choice of licensing to prop up the company. To be clear though, it was my choice, and I never assigned any copyright to the company. James / Copperhead had to convince me to do that, since it was fully up to me.
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Instead of the company supporting my work, as had been agreed, I was supporting / propping up the company by working ridiculously long hours with very little compensation. The project would have gotten more money without the company leeching away the revenue and donations...
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... and then to top it all off, James stole the remaining donations that people sent to support my work after pushing me out. Several people who donated substantial amounts of money demanded that he either send it to me as expected or return it but of course he refused to do it.
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I've received more money in the past year from a mix of donations and funding by companies / organizations for the project than I did in the entirety of my time at Copperhead over 4 years. It's also closer to having other developers working on it regularly than it ever was there.