Russian Police Raid NGINX Moscow Office

'Russian police have raided today the Moscow offices of NGINX, Inc., a
subsidiary of F5 Networks and the company behind the internet's most
popular web server technology. From a report:

Equipment was seized and employees were detained for questioning.
Moscow police executed the raid after last week the Rambler Group
filed a copyright violation against NGINX Inc., claiming full
ownership of the NGINX web server code. The Rambler Group is the
parent company of rambler.ru, one of Russia's biggest search engines
and internet portals. According to copies of the search warrant posted
on Twitter today, Rambler claims that Igor Sysoev developed NGINX
while he was working as a system administrator for the company, hence
they are the rightful owner of the project. Sysoev created NGINX in
the early 2000s and open-sourced the NGINX code in 2004. In 2009, he
founded NGINX, Inc., a US company, to provide adjacent tools and
support services for NGINX deployments. The company is based in San
Francisco, but has offices all over the world, including Moscow. The
NGINX server's source code is still free and managed through an
open-source model, although a large chunk of the project's primary
contributors are NGINX, Inc. employees, who have a firm grip on the
project's stewardship.'

-- source: https://news.slashdot.org/story/19/12/12/175245

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
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