Russian police raid NGINX Moscow office

guest · Dec 12, 2019

Russian police raid NGINX Moscow office
Russian search engine Rambler.ru claims full ownership of NGINX code
December 12, 2019
https://www.zdnet.com/article/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.

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.

Rambler said it ceded the legal rights to bring copyright claims against NGINX Inc. to Lynwood Investments CY Ltd, a Cyprus-based company "which has the necessary competencies to restore justice in the issue of ownership of rights."
Leonid Volkov, the Chief of Staff of Presidential candidate Alexei Navalny, criticized the raid and the legal case behind, claiming that after 15 years, the statute of limitations has run out to file a copyright infringement claim.
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syrinx · Dec 12, 2019

LOL that is just pathetic - this appears to be nothing but a horribly thought out copyright troll case if true as stated.

Sysoev never denied creating NGINX while working at Rambler. In a 2012 interview, Sysoev claimed he developed NGINX in his free time and that Rambler wasn't even aware of it for years.
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If I come up with something while employeed at McDonalds it doesn't mean they own what I create in my own time. I hope the counter-suit devastates the fools.

guest · Dec 17, 2019

Rambler will drop NGINX criminal case
December 17, 2019
https://www.zdnet.com/article/rambler-will-drop-nginx-criminal-case/

Following intense backlash from the open-source and Russian tech communities, Russian internet company Rambler sait it would drop its criminal case against NGINX Inc, the company behind the world's most popular web server.
Instead, Rambler will pursue any ownership claims over the NGINX source code in civil court, a Rambler spokesperson told ZDNet today.
RAMBLER FACED A HUGE BACKLASH IN RUSSIA
The protests and backlash against Rambler come after last week Russian police raided the Moscow office of NGINX Inc., the company behind the NGINX web server -- a shocking action not seen before in a copyright dispute over an open-source project.

Following the raid, the backlash against Rambler was unforgiving, harsh, and immediate, both internationationally and inside Russia.
The entire legal case, and its unusual escalation towards a criminal investigation rather than a regular lawsuit, made zero sense to all third-party observers.
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NGINX CO-FOUNDER CALLS RAID A MONEY GRAB
Following his release from custody, Maxim Konovalov, the other NGINX Inc founder arrested last week, called the entire affair an intimidation move and that Rambler never reached out to inquire or air any grievances about a potential copyright violation before the raid last week.

"The big money [from the F5 Networks acquisition] became palpable, and then we see the desire to grab a piece of it for themselves," Konovalov said in his interview. "It's a typical racket. Simple as that."
RAMBLER MIGHT CONTINUE IN A CIVIL CASE
All of the negative press coverage eventually forced Rambler to reassess its strategy on Monday. With Sberbank leading the charge, the board of directors unanimously voted to back down from the whole NGINX tire fire.
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