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>I see Russia takes copyright violation very seriously.

Often not, but this case is different. The reason is simple: people behind this don't really care about nginx, they also have no way to really win this case - to get something real they need to go into US court against F5, and this is impossible. Technically, their claims are nothing even for Russian court, although they can just use money or power here (but it looks like they already can't do much).

But they surely care about 670 millions. And programmer becomes much more agreeable and friendly after meeting with prosecution service and the famous HOMO police. Being under constant pressure forces people to rethink their ways. I guess Sysoev already received some kind of "contract" before this happening, but said "no". Now he has a second chance.

>I guess he is slightly related to a couple of people in the government too.

Of course. It is hard to find big company in Russia that isn't really government-related. Sberbank, for example, independent only on paper. An every wealthy oligarch has ties with government too.

>Nice for some open source stuff. Bernd, let's make some software. If we can sell the company for 10th of that it would still worth it.

Sadly, everything that can be made by small team without money from scratch is already made. At least everything that can be easily monetized. I have some experience with small IT startup, they already spent large amount of money and still can't get any real income from it.