ZDNet 12 Ri reports, Russian police today raided NGINX company (nginx server project commercialization company) office in Moscow, and took away NGINX co-founder Igor Sysoev and Maxim Konovalov, lgor Sysoev also nginx server project creator.
Employees said Igor Sysoev and Maxim Konovalov was taken away.
According to ZDNet reports, last week Rambler NGINX Group filed a copyright infringement lawsuit, claiming that it has full ownership nginx Web server code, Rambler Group is the parent company of rambler.ru, rambler.ru is Russia's largest search engine and Internet portal one.
Posted on Twitter a search warrant show, Rambler claiming nginx Igor Sysoev developed at the time as the company's system administrator, so they are the legitimate owner of the project. Sysoev had also indicated that it was created during the nginx rambler.ru work.
Prior to the acquisition of NGINX company F5 Networks spokesman confirmed the raid, but told ZDNet, the company is still collecting relevant information, no further comment.
During Sysoev has developed nginx, open-source project in 2004, and after this project is based on the establishment of commercial open source company NGINX, and last year was acquired by another company, and now has become the world's leading nginx Web server, and this time before the company declared the project of infringement, the news came out, there is a problem caused by the development of great concern: employee personal development in the company and whether the open-source project belongs to a company? Someone even joked, "is not in the company gave birth to a son also considered the company?."
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