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Police conducted search in the Nginx office due to a copyright claim

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Re: Police conducted search in the Nginx office due to a copyright claim

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Post by neltnerb »

mlyle wrote: post #188
neltnerb wrote: post #175

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It's not about amounts, it's about perception and policies. The idea of selling a product even remotely related to my job description to my current employer just sounds like a whole bag of nasty waiting to drop. What happens when you leave the company and try to increase the price to make a business out of it? Did you create a situation through the course of your employment such that the company you left is now depen…

> It's not about amounts, it's about perception and policies. The idea of selling a product even remotely related to my job description to my current employer just sounds like a whole bag of nasty waiting to drop. The discussion here relates to open source stuff. You give your company a bypass to the license agreement (attribution requirements, etc) in exchange for $1. That's a small business benefit, and in turn you…

I think we basically agree then. It just needs to all be transparent. There's just an awful lot of different ways things can go wrong and it's hard to know which ones will end up being relevant. I agree that it could be a good method for establishing clear separation. Just very tricky.

Re: Police conducted search in the Nginx office due to a copyright claim

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Post by kevin_thibedeau »

punarinta wrote: post #91

Oh my, I still see people in the comments who naively think this is a copyright issue. Seriously? 15 years after the alleged event? With physical violence against software developers? 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 peo…

Copyright doesn't have to be defended. Until it expires, someone holds it and whoever does has the right to control the licensing.

Re: Police conducted search in the Nginx office due to a copyright claim

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Post by ajross »

iforgotpassword wrote: post #90
kiney wrote: post #80

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nginx is open source. I tend to use the distribution provided packages which in case of debian are reproducible builds. (yeah, i know there's a pro version of nginx. never used it)

"It's open source, someone surely is doing regular thorough security audits."

Someone surely is doing regular thorough security audits of nginx, yes. Even at maximal cynicism, discovering a backdoor in its source code would get someone niche fame and a job at Project Zero (or a nice windfall on the black market, I guess).

Re: Police conducted search in the Nginx office due to a copyright claim

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Post by woodandsteel »

punarinta wrote: post #91

Oh my, I still see people in the comments who naively think this is a copyright issue. Seriously? 15 years after the alleged event? With physical violence against software developers? 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 peo…

I am quite sure you are right this is corrupt putinism. Putin's economic system is crony capitalism. The laws mean nothing, it is all a matter of who has political corrections and pays the biggest bribe.

That is why there is so little technological innovation in Russia, in spite of its being a huge developed country with a highly educated workforce (except, of course, for hacking). People with ideas know they will just be stolen, so they either leave them undeveloped or move to another country with real rule of law.

Re: Police conducted search in the Nginx office due to a copyright claim

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Post by zoomablemind »

punarinta wrote: post #91

Oh my, I still see people in the comments who naively think this is a copyright issue. Seriously? 15 years after the alleged event? With physical violence against software developers? 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 peo…

Perhaps feeding into more conspiracies, yet it's worth to remember the recent law to "isolate" the russian internet from the rest of the world [0].

Securing control over the web server software (indeed popular for solid reasons) plays well into this lockdown objective and yields to the state a product that it would struggle to create on its own otherwise. Think of those failed attempts at creating a "national OS" to break dependence from Western originated Windowses, Linuxes, and macOS alikes.

0: https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2019-05-01/new-ru...

Re: Police conducted search in the Nginx office due to a copyright claim

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Post by floatingatoll »

walshemj wrote: post #181
floatingatoll wrote: post #160

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It can be both a copyright issue and a corruption issue.

Sounds more like trade secrets / breach of contract

Rambler supposedly claimed copyright, so while what you’re saying may or may not be true, it’s certainly acceptable to view this as a copyright issue regardless:

https://twitter.com/AntNesterov/status/1205121533963841536?s...

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