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Slightly easier to read: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1205086129504104460.html TLDR: Igor Sysoev started Nginx while employed by Rambler, who did not then claim copyright, but now they have. The police raid is a result of that claim.
Russia has absurd IP hijacking rules that are being exploited.
/sarcasm
Both cases are quite similar to my eye.
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A little bit on that Alexander Mamut guy: http://rumafia.net/en/dosje/12 . One of the "7 banker" group.
He is the one who racketeered Euroset into selling itself at 990% discount.
Evroset was the largest retail network in Russia, built from scratch buy a man with a lot of talent, but no mafia connections. Alexander Chichvarkin was pretty much the most renowned businessman of his generation in Russia.
Chichvarkin fled to UK, and left a director to be his proxy.
They used the same tactic — director detained, and offered a trade at gunpoint. The director however managed to escape the capture too. In this case, after his bodyguards made a scuffle with police in his office.
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Russia has absurd IP hijacking rules that are being exploited.
On the West there wouldn't be even a chance for this business: nginx would belong to employer by default.
F5 buys Nginx, then months later there are suddenly copyright claims and raids relating to the founder having left a former company in 2012...
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Not sure if your comment is trolling or just due to ignorance, but https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Magnitsky
Not trolling... if they outlaw encryption, as most governments want to do, it will require creative org structures.
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To save anyone else having to look it up. 51M RUB is currently around US $810k.
Somewhat surprised this hasn't settled out of court then.
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But even if they "owned" nginx - what does it get them? The community would immediately fork it and change the branding. The same happened to MySQL when Sun was bought by Oracle when MariaDB was forked - though I concede MariaDB isn't as popular as I hoped.
If they indeed have copyright then you cannot legally fork it without them giving you licence to it. Just because you have the code doesn't mean you have the licence. All the other licences would be void.
If not, what's to stop other companies doing this in a predatory way? Start an "open source" project, gather years of valuable contributions from a enthusiastic community, then pull the rug?
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That could happen in any country. That's a corporate dispute. Rambler sold their NGINX "copyright rights" to a shady law firm (Lynwood Investments CY Ltd).
That's not a corporate displute. It's probable cause in criminal law. Ngnix founders are already detained btw.
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Somewhat surprised this hasn't settled out of court then.
Don't you understand the trick? If they acknowledge that they "stole" it, Mamut will then go to US and use it as a basis for his claims on the F5, which is like a million times bigger than this claim.