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It's only one among thousands of cases when putinists rob successful companies. The world must put more pressure on putinism, because eventually all the stolen resources turn into imprisonments of people in the country and deaths of people in the countries attacked by that putinist machine.
9.5 rules of doing business in Russia 1. Keep your servers abroad. 2. Register your domains abroad. 3. Register your company abroad. 4. Keep your money abroad and don't put all eggs in one basket. 5. Seriously, don't put all your eggs in one basket! 6. Keep your database abroad. 7. Document everything regarding your office setup. 8. Split the risks and assets. 9. You can give youself up voluntarily. Find a large patr…
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).
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They are currently being interrogated, not detained.
If you can't walk away from an interrogation, you've been detained.
Maximum time for a detention is 48 hours until the court's decision. The difference is how much time one would have to actively prepare his defence themselves, not via advocates.
I see it this way (being a Russian): it's not a copyright claim issue, but rather a hostage situation with bandits involved (a.k.a Russian authorities), and what they want is ransom so that top #1-2 nginx contributors don't go to jail for some 10 years.
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.
I see it this way (being a Russian): it's not a copyright claim issue, but rather a hostage situation with bandits involved (a.k.a Russian authorities), and what they want is ransom so that top #1-2 nginx contributors don't go to jail for some 10 years.
I've some kind of reflex to say "come on, it can't be that bad over there", but then I read a thread like this and it's like a slap in my naivete's face. To put the "over there" remark in context, I grew up in a neighbourhing country.
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That's not a corporate displute. It's probable cause in criminal law. Ngnix founders are already detained btw.
They are currently being interrogated, not detained.
Igor Sysoev developed Nginx while working in Rambler (a Russian search engine) back in 2002-2004. Now, 15 years later, Rambler filed a copyright claim against Nginx and Igor, and demands (allegedly) 51M RUB from them.
I've read documents provided by nginx employee Igor Ippolitov, and I'm convinced Rambler is commiting a offence under article 306 of criminal codex.
In brief, in Russia an employee retains all rights on his/her/it's intellectual property if he/she/it was not instructed to do this job. Former Rambler CEO confirmed that Sysoev has no instructions to create a web server.
At the same time, Rambler claims that: "unknown person at an unspecified time acting within the scope of his duties and on behalf of management".
unknown person cannot have a scope of his duties. management cannot give orders to an unknown person.
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It's the same people under a different acronym, this is not a meaningful difference for most people.
Especially for the Front Side Bus crowd