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Cops storm Nginx's Moscow offices after a Russian biz claims it owns world's most widely used web server, not F5

Cops storm Nginx's Moscow offices after a Russian biz claims it owns world's most widely used web server, not F5

4 years ago
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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/12/12/nginx_moscow_office_raided/

Nginx's Moscow office was raided today by police after the ownership of the popular web server's source code was disputed.

We understand the cops showed up after Russian company Rambler Group formally complained it owned the code, and that Nginx was thus infringing its rights, highlighting the country's rather interesting approach to intellectual property. Tweets also appeared detailing the swoop: